Re: Becoming the OS X binary maintainer

Ian Silvester <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've not idea what I'm taking on by saying this, but as a long time user
> of Privoxy on OS X I am keen for it to be easily available to the Mac
> user community and so I'd like to step up to the plate as maintainer of
> the OS X binary. I am dimly aware that there were disagreements that
> terminated the creation of the OS X binary some months (years?) ago, so
> I'll understand if you prefer for the project not to have a supported
> Mac build.

In general we prefer to support as many platforms as possible.

The "disagreement" you mention is documented at:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=211118&aid=1876629&group_id=11118

In my obviously-biased opinion it was more of a misunderstanding
than a real disagreement. I was under the impression that we had
two non-competing Mac OS X packages that appealed to different
user groups, but one of the packagers apparently didn't.

Unfortunately I was unaware of this until it was too late.

The maintainer of the "competing" package stopped packaging
due to lack of time, like many packagers did before him.
No hard feelings there, as far as I know.

> I also have to admit that I have practically zero Objective C experience
> (I debugged some code for Rixstep's Xfile once) and my C is pretty
> rusty, but then I guess the interface for the Privoxy Utility is done
> and dusted so I'm assuming it's mostly a question of compile and package
> yes?

It depends on what you want to package.

Given that the "Privoxy Utility" is an external application
(and unlike other tools not even part of the source tarball),
one can create Privoxy packages without it.

I believe that's what MacPorts and similar sites do.

Given that the creator of the "Privoxy Utility" quit,
it is also currently unmaintained and may no longer work
on recent Mac OS X released.

In my personal opinion the feature set of the "Privoxy Utility"
is rather limited compared to what one gets by combining the
other Privoxy tools available, but there are certainly other
users who felt that it worked great for them. BTW, that's true
for the Windows GUI as well (which unfortunately is not an external
application).

> Anyway, let me know if this is of interest and I'll dust off Xcode.

I'm reasonable sure that OS X packages would be appreciated.
Whether or not any users actually could be bothered to thank
you is another question, but this isn't a Mac-specific issue.

I probably can't help you with Objective C issues, but maybe others can.
If you encounter any problems with Privoxy itself, I'll certainly try
to help.

You also may want to ask on the users list what Mac OS X users
expect from a Privoxy package.

Fabian

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