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robaho / seashore

easy to use mac osx image editing application for the rest of us
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Consider updating buildnotes.txt #188

Closed thoran closed 1 year ago

thoran commented 1 year ago

The incantations out of the box here, https://github.com/robaho/seashore/blob/master/buildnotes.txt, don't work on Ventura at least...

  1. With building for the App Store, I need a signing certificate.
  2. With building a .dmg, I needed to specify MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = 13.0 instead of MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = 10.9 in Seashore.xconfig, but then I need a signing certificate again.

While I can find an old certificate or create one, I thought it might be good for the build instructions to be more comprehensive maybe.

My specific purpose was to make a Homebrew recipe which downloads the latest zip file and compiles the app, since there isn't a Homebrew recipe as yet, since that is preferred over using the App Store for installation.

robaho commented 1 year ago

There are earlier issues regarding Homebrew that you can review. For a variety of reasons it is not on the top of my list of priorities. It was previously available there - I had provided DMG releases - but it amounted to less than .1 % of all Seashore users. It simply wasn't worth the effort.

That being said, Seashore certainly builds and runs for 10.9 (as the minimum release). I verify this when testing new releases.

thoran commented 1 year ago

From https://github.com/mas-cli/mas...

$ brew install mas
($ mas search Seashore # Find the App Store ID.)
$ mas install 1448648921 # Install Seashore to /Applications.
robaho commented 1 year ago

From that page…

Over time, Apple has changed the APIs used by mas to manage App Store apps, limiting its capabilities. Please sign in or purchase apps using the App Store app instead.

thoran commented 1 year ago

It was still working when I tried it for Seashore a few days ago at least. I thought I would document the alternative here for others who may stumble upon it when looking for a similar solution.

robaho commented 1 year ago

Like I’ve said, please review the earlier issues. Brew has some significant downsides for developers. For many projects it’s very helpful - for others not so much.

thoran commented 1 year ago

I'm not aware of those downsides. Perhaps you could deal with such questions pre-emptively by addressing that in documentation somewhere if you feel the need to do so.

robaho commented 1 year ago

Thank you for the feedback.