Re: GUI on MacOS X !

[Simone Deparis]

On 24.09.17 14:03, Sebastian Schöps wrote:
> > Am 24.09.2017 um 13:49 schrieb Ben Abbott <address@hidden>:
> > > On Sep 24, 2017, at 7:26 AM, Sebastian Schöps <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > The GUI hangs when I quit, so its not “stable” yet.
> > >
> > > This is also what I observe since more than half a year. Octave hangs on
> > > exit:
> > > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50025
> > > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50795
> > >
> > > Homebrew has stopped shipping the GUI. I did not see any change recently.
> > > However, I am compiling with qt5.9. Maybe this makes a difference.
> > >
> > > By the way: to my knowledge we should drop support for qt4 as it is
> > > unsupported and has many knows bugs.
> >
> > I’m still using Qt4 because I was never able to complete a successful build wth 
> > Qt5 (via Fink).
> >
> > If there are any maintainers on MacOS who would like to get the gui working, 
> > now may be a good opportunity.
>
> I like to add that we have - thanks to Simone Deparis - an macOS development 
> machine... dear qt experts, please help!
>
> Sebastian

As discussed with Sebastian, I have upgraded the MacMini. If needed, I 
can give access to other developers, please let me know.

Thanks!


Simone


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