[vlc-devel] contrib: detect XCode > 3

[Rafaël Carré]

Le Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:29:32 +0100,
"Felix Paul Kühne" <fkuehne.videolan at googlemail.com> a écrit :

> Hello,
> 
> On 26.11.2011, at 21:26, Rafaël Carré wrote:
> 
> > Here's what I found in my experiments:
> > 
> > - xcode 3 doesn't support -arch
> > - If we don't specify arch we'll build whatever defaultS architectures
> > are set in the project file (which we could patch)
> absolutely true. However, you can set this in the Xcode GUI. Which is why I'm proposing that we are using manually compiled frameworks (by one of us, not upstream) for contribs like we did since we introduced Sparkle support about 2 years ago.

What we can set in the Xcode GUI we can set in the file using sed, the
format is verbose but simple to understand.

Nothing prevents us from building them from source especially with
xcodebuild 4 which gives us more options.

About 'manually compiled' you can do more than that i.e. build a whole
set of contribs and put it on the download server : just look at what
'make prebuilt' and 'make package' do.

Since you'll obviously create the OSX binaries feel free to put
whatever rootkit^Wbinaries you want inside them.
Just make sure building everything from source also works to make
paranoids, GPL activists, and me, happy :)

> > - bghudappkit doesn't build properly for PowerPC
> Works for me. See the "how to build for 10.5" section on its github page.

OK

> > - bghudappkit is now mandatory to build VLC
> 
> > - we support MacOSX 10.5
> > - 10.5 SDK is NOT available in Xcode 4
> > - 10.5 is the last supported SDK for PowerPC
> absolutely true points.
> 
> > Conclusion:
> > The frameworks in contribs will not build automatically on 10.5 / xcode3
> > VLC for PowerPC is broken since the dependancy on BGHUDAppKit was
> > added months ago, and nobody noticed.
> > 
> > Suggestion:
> > Drop PowerPC support
> We can do that. However, with the old contribs, VLC 1.2 works quite okay on the PowerPC. We still get around 60k downloads for the PPC-specific packages, so I don't really feel like dropping it.
> 
> > Drop 10.5 support
> I spend quite a significant part of this summer retaining the code compatibility with this OS X version because it still got a market share of 15 to 20 %. I know it's shrinking especially because of Apple's increasing sales numbers, but IMO, it absolutely make sense to still support it.
> 
> > Do we have stats on 10.5 and PowerPC usage?
> 
> See above.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Felix

Yeah I see usage is still quite important so we can wait a bit for
those and drop them together in a future release (since not supporting
10.5 anymore means not supporting PowerPC OSX)

-- 
Rafaël Carré