Re: testing 2.13.6 darwin, mingw

[Patrick McCarty]

On 2009-10-10, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:35:54AM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> > On 2009-10-10, Graham Percival wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 01:20:00AM +0200, Christian Hitz wrote:
> > > > I tested both 2.12.2 and 2.12.3 on darwin-x86 10.5 and 10.6.
> > > >
> > > > 2.12.2 works on both platforms, 2.12.3 hangs on creating the fonts cache
> > > > on both systems. It works if 2.12.2 has created the cache before.
> > > 
> > > Interesting!  I suspect that Patrick hasn't been clearing out the
> > > font cache before testing each version.  I wonder how far back the
> > > problem goes?
> > 
> > I have been clearing the font cache *every* time, and 2.12.3 and
> > 2.13.6 still work perfectly for me on OSX 10.5.
> > 
> > Trust me, I wouldn't report that a certain version works for me had I
> > not been careful about removing the font cache beforehand.
> 
> Sorry about the doubt!

No problem.  

> So there's something weird between your
> version of OSX 10.5 and Christian's version of OSX?  Could it have
> to do with international fonts / keyboard layout?

That's a possibility.

> I'm out of my depth here.  I just know that both of you are highly
> competent developers, so I'll let you two discuss / fix it
> further.  :)

Well, I'm not incredibly familiar with Mac OSX issues, so I'm hoping
Christian might have a better idea about what the problem is.  I can
provide more details about the lab machines I test on if necessary.


Thanks,
Patrick