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Re: The IDE on macOS [message #56773 is a reply to message #56771]

Thu, 15 April 2021 08:46

mirek
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MattM wrote on Thu, 15 April 2021 03:58

Hello,

I just wanted to provide some feedback on my attempts to use U++'s IDE on macOS Catalina. There seems to be a few areas to improve on:

1) Get the .app signed with an Apple signature
2) Review the .app's access to macOS API's/features (Desktop folder, Documents folder, Downloads folder, Photos, Calendar, Reminders)
3) SVN was removed from Apple's tool-chains as of around July 2020 (it's no longer part of XCode / Command Line Tools). TheIDE should configure a fallback path for finding SVN through the path(s) installed package managers like Homebrew or MacPorts (actually, TheIDE should probably offer to install/setup SVN when it is not found). Right now this requires a slew of workarounds.

Just some feedback to make the macOS port of TheIDE a more functional user experience.

Thanks. Admittedly, MacOS so far gets the least attention of 3 supported systems, especially MacOS related stuff.

Hopefully point 3) will be resolved with next release, it was just a bug - the intention was that all should work without svn, but a problem with initial configuration prevented that.

Any help with 1) would be welcome.

Mirek

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