[Gvsig_english] Call for Mac Community contributors.

Wed May 18 13:54:36 CEST 2011

Hi Agustin and others,

The main problem that Jordi and me found was the raster support. In
mac version all raster operations uses gdal (mrsid and ecw load using
gdal plugins).

This implies that we have a patched libRaster version and of course a
build of a GDAL as a framework with it's plugins.

So, first of all we need a kind of infrastructure to support this
patched version or study how to support this in the official version.

Next I think we need to study that bugs (are common to all platforms
or only for mac?) and improve gui support for macosx.

The "easy" part is to build the .dmg. In 3D svn repository I uploaded
a CMake script that is able to copy all gvsig java files and copy and
fix the RPATH of all binaries and frameworks used by gvSIG. Anyway I
need to upgrade the script with modern cmake versions and test it
again.

Cheers,
Rafa.

2011/5/18 Agustin Diez Castillo <adiez at uv.es>:
> Hi Rafa and others,
> On May 17, 2011, at 7:42 PM, Jordi Torres wrote:
>
> Hi Agustin,
>
> It was for the Ipod battery, wasn't it?
>
> Right.
>
> By the way I was beginning to miss you in this thread...  ;) I suppose you
> are involved too in the working group. Maybe we should start to talk what we
> expect from this version or what to do and how to do it.
>
> I'm in. Now we have a nice version (1303 build) but it has some not so minor
> problems when working with Sextante that I can't say if they are Mac ones or
> somebody else. To put some examples, if you sample more that one raster with
> a layer points only the first one will return results; copy and paste a
> layer from view to view badly misplaced the original one. Raster save as
> tiff when the original is a grass produced layer results in a empty tiff.
>
> For example what bugfixes relatives to MacOS distribution you wish to see,
> etc.. I remember some of them (The ecwp protocol was not available and maybe
> other dialogs are not well displayed in OSX).
>
> This are top priorities, to see all the windows menu will be wonderful.
> Beginners can't use filters when doing a selection because they don't see
> the whole window, this feature works however in gvSIG 1.1.2. The last
> version of Navtable includes a quick filter option that doesn't work in Mac
> and so on. Normalization doesn't support more than nine characters even when
> the parser are colons or semicolons.
>
> I hope more developers and users could join us if we have this conversations
> in the lists.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> A kind of bugtracker will be nice.
> A wiki with the workaround tricks is needed.
>
>
> 2011/5/17 Agustin Diez Castillo <adiez at uv.es>
>>
>> Some people claim that "Defective by design" was a Steve Job's idea. But I
>> will say that in average Macs last longer than PCs even if you're running
>> applications developed without having MacOS on mind (i.e. gvSIG) ;-)
>>
>> On May 17, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Jorge Piera Llodrá wrote:
>>
>> > I thought it was impossible to break a Mac :-)
>> >
>> > Enjoy your new laptop!
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Jorge
>> >
>> >
>> > On 05/17/2011 05:09 PM, Rafa Gaitan wrote:
>> >> Hi Manuel,
>> >>
>> >> Maybe you already know that, but I will continue collaborating with
>> >> Mac version. At least now I have a new apple laptop (the last one
>> >> crashed in the middle of a speech! :O).
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Rafa.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 2011/5/17 Manuel Madrid<mmadrid at gvsig.com>:
>> >>
>> >>> Hello all and sorry for crossposting.
>> >>>
>> >>> As you all know one of the main benefits of FOSS projects is the
>> >>> community participation. Community contributions make projects better
>> >>> and greater, covering areas that otherwise they couldn’t achive. One
>> >>> of
>> >>> these areas is multiple Operative System support.
>> >>>
>> >>> Currently gvSIG officialy supports some GNU/Linux distributions and
>> >>> Windows but thanks to Rafael Gaitán and the ai2 Institute of the
>> >>> Universidad Politécnica de Valencia [1] (the gvSIG 3D extension team
>> >>> [2]) there is for a while a gvSIG non-oficial distribution for Mac OS
>> >>> X
>> >>> [3], increasing the supported platforms to this new one.
>> >>>
>> >>> This is, with no doubt, a great contribution for the project,
>> >>> specially
>> >>> appreciated for OS X users, and we think it could be a good starting
>> >>> point to definitely boost the gvSIG Mac Community in order to have a
>> >>> gvSIG distribution for Mac from now on.
>> >>>
>> >>> We think it would be interesting to promote the creation of a working
>> >>> group composed of Mac developers and users whose goal would be, first
>> >>> of
>> >>> all, define the minimum roles and tasks needed to carry out the
>> >>> maintenance of the distribution, and secondly, to carry out these
>> >>> tasks.
>> >>>
>> >>> The working group would work autonomously under supervision of a gvSIG
>> >>> TSC Board member and it would have the support of the gvSIG
>> >>> development
>> >>> and testing teams.
>> >>>
>> >>> Those who are interested in actively participate in this working
>> >>> group,
>> >>> please, reply to this mail on the list or, if you prefer, send me a
>> >>> private e-mail (mmadrid [at] gvsig [dot] com) introducing yourself,
>> >>> indicating your profile (developer/user) and the tasks you think you
>> >>> can
>> >>> contribute on.
>> >>>
>> >>> Best regards,
>> >>> Manuel.
>> >>>
>> >>> [1] http://www.ai2.upv.es/en/index.php
>> >>> [2]
>> >>>
>> >>> http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/official/gvsig-1.10/extensiones-gvsig-1.10/extension-3d
>> >>> [3]
>> >>> http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/other-distributions
>> >>> --
>> >>> Manuel Madrid.
>> >>> Product and testing manager.
>> >>> gvSIG project (http://www.gvsig.org).
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
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Rafael Gaitán Linares
Instituto de Automática e Informática Industrial  http://www.ai2.upv.es
http://gvsig3d.blogspot.com
Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia