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From Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org>
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Subject Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85
Date 2025-02-15 10:30 +0100
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Hi,

Chris Ridd writes:
> Francois LE COAT wrote:
>>>> Do you know the status of ARAnyM developments? There's only one
>>>> developer for the macOS target, and the support of Apple Silicon is
>>>> hardly working, though the JIT compiler is not supported yet. Before
>>>> thinking about an iOS support, there's a lot to be done with macOS!
>>>
>>> Of course I do, and it does look a bit of a mess. If your "one 
>>> developer for the macOS target" is Philipp Donze, then he doesn't 
>>> upstream his changes :-(
>>
>> Well the mess is not from developers, but from GitHub that is a
>> Microsoft technology. I don't understand anything to GitHub, that
>> is rather intended to Windows developers exclusively, I suspect.
> 
> I'm not sure. I don't perceive a Windows bias in Github, after all it 
> was used for open source projects for a very long time before Microsoft 
> bought GitHub.
> 
>>> Having said that, I did build the MacAranym-Latest.xcodeproj a while 
>>> ago, create a small improvement to the screenshot code, and I do run 
>>> it on an M1. The "main" MacAranym.xcodeproj is no longer buildable on 
>>> any modern Mac/Xcode.
>>
>> That's what we're talking. For instance for the Hatari projects, there's
>> releases, and developments. But for ARAnyM it's not the case, at all.
>> If there was a favorite developments platform, like the ATARI VCS, that
>> would make things easier. x86 ARAnyM target is the most accomplished,
>> for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux. For ARM all is rather experimental.
>> Among GitHub, all CPU targets, the situation for devels is inextricable.
>> Specially for old software like ARAnyM, that is in delicate situation.
>> It seems to me that peoples are discouraged with the GitHub complexity.
> 
> Perhaps, but honestly it just looks like git to me with their own style 
> of pull requests. Nothing outrageously different here. Do you have any 
> concrete examples of "the situation for devels is inextricable" 
> especially regarding GitHub?

Yes. Will I have to pay developers to obtain macOS or Windows binaries?
I remind you that we're speaking of *free software* hosted on GitHub.
All would be simpler, if the prioritized devel platform was ATARI VCS!

Regards,

-- 
François LE COAT
Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)
https://eureka.atari.org/

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    Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2025-01-12 15:30 +0100
    Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2025-01-25 10:28 +0000
      Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2025-02-09 16:10 +0100
        Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2025-02-11 20:57 +0000
          Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2025-02-11 22:45 +0100
            Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2025-02-12 19:45 +0000
              Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2025-02-12 21:30 +0100
                Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2025-02-13 08:33 +0000
                Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2025-02-13 18:30 +0100
                Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2025-02-14 08:25 +0000
                Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 Francois LE COAT <lecoat@atari.org> - 2025-02-15 10:30 +0100
                Re: [video] ATARI ST at CES'85 Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2025-02-16 12:50 +0000
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