Re: Meld for OSX / GTK issues

[Kai <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On Sat, 5 Oct 2019 at 09:45, Youssef A. Abukwaik
<youssef adnan gmail com> wrote:
> I have already figured out how to fix this from the GTK side (GTK 3.24). I'll try this and see if it helps 
> with performance (going back to be windowed) - thank you.

Oh nice. Well I hope that addresses at least that headerbar issue.

> It would help me so much if you make each release a branch so that I can pull stable upstream changes 
> instead of master as I do now.

We already do this! Individual releases are tagged as e.g., `3.20.1`,
and the stable release series is on a branch named e.g., `meld-3-20`.
Is this enough for your purposes?

Currently I don't do this for unstable series; since there's only ever
been one at a time, that's essentially just whatever is in `master`. I
guess if we ever needed unstable 3.21.x and 3.23.x branches at the
same time this could get messy, but it's not something that's ever
come up.

> It would be awesome if anyone could help. I've asked for help in the issues on github, on my Facebook with 
> my techie friends and even in some of the forums. Everyone is excited but not one stepped up. To be honest, 
> building the environment is boring, but it's pretty much done and the I have already figured out the nasty 
> tricks (the gir files and the typelibs were a real challenge - I wanted one binary without a wrapper and 
> spent days with the linker and the typelib files till I got that right)
> This part:
> https://github.com/yousseb/meld/blob/master/osx/build_app.sh#L129
> and this part:
> https://github.com/yousseb/meld/blob/master/osx/build_app.sh#L155
> Took about three weeks until I got them right..

It was a long time ago, but I do remember doing something similar for
the original Windows build. It's not a fun process, I'm sorry!

> PS: I'll record a video of how it looks/feels on Mac. You should at least see it in action. :)

Awesome, please do.

cheers,
Kai