[Gvsig_english] Call for Mac Community contributors.

Wed May 18 15:41:10 CEST 2011

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Dr. Agustín Diez Castillo
Departament de Prehistòria i Arqueologia
Universitat de València    	Phone:   +34 963 98 38 93
Avda. Blasco Ibañez, 28  	 				Fax:       +34 963 98 38 87
València 46010
http://www.uv.es/sidgeipa
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On May 18, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Rafa Gaitan wrote:

> 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.
> 
I will try the easy part.
> 
> 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
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