[Users] OSX GTK

[Igor Mammedov]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 08:23:17 -0400
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 09:52:36 +0200 Igor Mammedov <imammedo at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > > > > > Several years ago,Igor Mammedov seems to have submitted some
> > > > > > patches to make Claws work under the version of GTK that
> > > > > > works directly with OSX's Aqua (instead of X11).[...]
> > > > > > Can anyone tell me what happened to integrating
> > > > > > these?          
> > > > > 
> > > > > Nothing :)
> > > > > 
> > > > > To summarize¹: AFAIK, no developer has access to such OS
> > > > > family to test and no people with access to such OS family
> > > > > has stepped into the task of being a Claws Mail developer for
> > > > > that OS.        
> > > > 
> > > > I'm on that platform, and I would be willing to integrate the
> > > > patches.      
> > > 
> > > Repeating my offer. :)
> > > 
> > > I'm happy to integrate the patches and to help support the MacOS
> > > platform.  
> >
> > It would need to be rebased on current master and I have some
> > changes on top of old version to make it build on recent MacOs
> > versions. I'll try to dig them up when I get home.  
> 
> Very good! Igor, if you're willing, maybe we can work on this in a
> shared Github repository and submit it in for integration. 
I'm afraid I don't have time to work on it beside pushing up my
changes to github (if I manage to find them.)

Though, I might be able to help with build testing on my still alive
macbook when rebase is ready for submission.
And of cause grumble a bit if I don't like something in 'my' patches
for someone else to fix :)

> 
> Perry