Re: [Gimp-developer] MacOS-Build, maybe I could help?

[Carmelo DrRaw <aferrero1975 gmail com>]

I would like to chime in this thread, to let you know that I have quite some experience in automating the OSX 
DMG creation process for GTK applications.

I have already set-up such a build procedure for another project of mine 
(https://github.com/aferrero2707/pf-build-osx <https://github.com/aferrero2707/pf-build-osx>), and I am 
currently working on applying the same concept to GIMP.
The build environment is based on Homebrew, and is designed to run automatically on Travis-CI 
(https://travis-ci.org <https://travis-ci.org/>). The resulting DMG package gets automatically uploaded back 
to GitHub, without any manual intervention.
Up to now I have successfully compiled the git head version of BABL/GEGL/GIMP using dependencies from 
homebrew. Now I am starting to adapt the scripts to Travis-CI and to package the whole thing into a DMG file.
The whole set of scripts would be hosted in a github repository, so that it will be accessible to everybody 
for checking and improving…

If that sounds interesting/useful, just let me know. The idea is primarily meant at regularly providing 
ready-to-install snapshots of the development version, with close-to-zero workload for developers.
By the way, I am already taking care of a similar automated build procedure for a GIMP Linux AppImage package 
(https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage <https://github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage>).

Regards,
Andrea 

> On 15 May 2018, at 12:53, Philip Lehmann-Böhm <philip philiplb de> wrote:
>
> Am 15.05.18 um 12:50 schrieb Philip Lehmann-Böhm:
> > Am 15.05.18 um 10:47 schrieb Kristian Rietveld:
> > > > On 12 May 2018, at 14:00, Philip Lehmann-Böhm <philip philiplb de> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've read in the FAQs that the guy with the Mac is a bit busy at the moment and so there is hardly any 
> > > > time left for creating the DMG. Maybe I could help here and do the build? I would just need some 
> > > > directions what is needed to compile and build the package.
> > > How we have been building the DMG up till now is documented in git:
> > >
> > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/build/osx/README?h=gimp-2-8
> > >
> > >
> > > This is now a little outdated because I have been working on fully automating this process when I still 
> > > had some spare time. This work is in fact almost complete. I am trying to find the time to upload this 
> > > work into git. It will consist of a Python script that will automatically build all components and create 
> > > the DMG and some documentation on how to setup the environment within which to launch this Python script.
> > >
> > > Note that this concerns GIMP 2.8. There are no instructions for 2.10 yet. My plan was to work on making 
> > > the necessary changes to the script and moduleset to build 2.10 as soon as the work for 2.8 has been 
> > > published in git.
> > >
> > >
> > > regards,
> > >
> > > -kris.
> > Hi Kris,
> >
> > automating the build process seems like a good idea. :)
> >
> > Is there anything I could do in the meantime? Like adjusting the Python script to 2.10?
> Or following the steps of the README and build a dmg?
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