Hey fellow KStars Mac Users, I have been working hard over the last couple of weeks to rewrite my build scripts and update the craft recipes with the ultimate goal of getting things working on KDE Binary Factory so we can get daily builds of KStars and INDI for MacOS like exist for Windows and Linux. I am getting pretty close, but note that a bunch of changes had to be made to make this possible. Please check this DMG thoroughly to make sure there were not any issues with all the changes. The most important things to check are the following:
1. INDI drivers. I had to move the directory for INDI in the bundle from /Contents/MacOS/indi/ to /Contents/MacOs/. As far as I can tell, that seems to be working just fine, but please let me know if a driver cannot be found or if the driver can't find its firmware or CCD Simulator cannot find GSC or something like that. So far it seems good, but please check just in case. Also I was having an issue with the ZWO and GPhoto drivers due to changes in the recipes. I think they are fixed and working now, but please test them. Please test with any equipment you might have. Thanks!
2. DBus Scripting. Several years ago I had written a bunch of code to get DBus working for KStars on MacOS and I needed custom build recipes and files. When I did this overhaul, it looks like the higher-ups integrated some of my changes and made some improvements of their own so that it seems to be working without my custom build now. Please test to make sure the Scheduler Works and Scripting works since those rely heavily on DBus. If it doesn't work, I can always go back to the other way I used to do it.
3. XPlanet. I had to change the directory for XPlanet from /Contents/MacOS/indi/xplanet to /Contents/MacOS/ and I moved the data for xplanet into the Resources folder and then wrote some code to copy it into the data directory so that it gets preserved when a person upgrades kstars. Please test this since it really was a bunch of changes. Note that I still don't have maps in there for all the planets and I plan to fix that before the release, but make sure it is working properly.
4. Anything you know to be newly added to KStars or INDI. I have been really busy recently (particularly with getting KStars to work on Binary Factory) and I haven't kept up with all the changes in KStars and INDI, but I know there were some, please make sure anything new works well.
Please report below with any Mac Specific issues so that we can fix them before the 3.5.7 release.
Here is the DMG:
www.indilib.org/jdownloads/kstars/beta/kstars-3.5.7-beta.dmg
Thanks,
Rob