Re: GUI on MacOS X !

[Ben Abbott]

> On Sep 24, 2017, at 7:26 AM, Sebastian Schöps <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> bpabbott wrote
>> In the last week something changed. The GUI is now running for me with Mac
>> OS X (10.12.6) on a 2.9GHz Intel Core i7 MacBook Pro.
>> [...]
>> I’m using Fink for dependencies and am linking to their Qt4 libs.
>> 
>> The GUI hangs when I quit, so its not “stable” yet.
> 
> This is also what I observe since more than half a year. Octave hangs on
> exit:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50025
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50795
> 
> Homebrew has stopped shipping the GUI. I did not see any change recently.
> However, I am compiling with qt5.9. Maybe this makes a difference. 
> 
> By the way: to my knowledge we should drop support for qt4 as it is
> unsupported and has many knows bugs.
> 
> Bye
> Sebastian

I’m still using Qt4 because I was never able to complete a successful build wth 
Qt5 (via Fink).

If there are any maintainers on MacOS who would like to get the gui working, 
now may be a good opportunity.

Ben