Hi PK,
I can clarify this for you. These issues we have been discussing are unrelated to the 3.5.0 dmg that I created the other day. They are related to the build scripts that I made that can be used to build KStars on your own system.
The script that was being discussed earlier, kstars-on-osx-craft (
github.com/rlancaste/kstars-on-osx-craft), is the one used to actually build everything from scratch using craft as well as making the DMG's. It is working very well right now, except that there are a couple of issues that need to be resolved in craft. I submitted requests to fix those issues. I fixed them on my own system so that I could finish building the DMG, but until they fix the issues that I mentioned it won't build for everyone. I think we are down to just one issue, but until they fix it, it won't work for everyone.
The other script we were discussing more recently KStars-INDI-Mac-Dev (
github.com/rlancaste/KStars-INDI-Mac-Dev) is a script I made that is meant to ultimately make things easier for people who just want to build the latest version on their systems, or make development contributions to the code, but don't want to take all the time or hard drive space required to set up a full craft build (several hours and around 100 GB) or deal with the complexities involved. The way that I am making this work is to copy the built libraries and executables from an existing KStars build so that you don't have to build them all again. So ultimately this will be really great I think, for folks who want to help and get the latest version easily for just their own systems, but there are some challenges on my end getting it set up and working and they are helping me sort out the issues with it.
But none of this is related to the posted DMG. It is true that Airbourn reported an odd crash related to the Summary Screen, which led to this discussion about the build script, and once we fix these problems in the build script, he can help us find out what caused the crash on his system. And if we do fix that issue, along with any others, there will probably be an update.