From: lecoat@atari.org   
      
   Hi,   
      
   Chris Ridd writes:   
   > Francois LE COAT wrote:   
   >>>> Do you know the status of ARAnyM developments? There's only one   
   >>>> developer for the macOS target, and the support of Apple Silicon is   
   >>>> hardly working, though the JIT compiler is not supported yet. Before   
   >>>> thinking about an iOS support, there's a lot to be done with macOS!   
   >>>   
   >>> Of course I do, and it does look a bit of a mess. If your "one    
   >>> developer for the macOS target" is Philipp Donze, then he doesn't    
   >>> upstream his changes :-(   
   >>   
   >> Well the mess is not from developers, but from GitHub that is a   
   >> Microsoft technology. I don't understand anything to GitHub, that   
   >> is rather intended to Windows developers exclusively, I suspect.   
   >    
   > I'm not sure. I don't perceive a Windows bias in Github, after all it    
   > was used for open source projects for a very long time before Microsoft    
   > bought GitHub.   
   >    
   >>> Having said that, I did build the MacAranym-Latest.xcodeproj a while   
   >>> ago, create a small improvement to the screenshot code, and I do run   
   >>> it on an M1. The "main" MacAranym.xcodeproj is no longer buildable on    
   >>> any modern Mac/Xcode.   
   >>   
   >> That's what we're talking. For instance for the Hatari projects, there's   
   >> releases, and developments. But for ARAnyM it's not the case, at all.   
   >> If there was a favorite developments platform, like the ATARI VCS, that   
   >> would make things easier. x86 ARAnyM target is the most accomplished,   
   >> for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux. For ARM all is rather experimental.   
   >> Among GitHub, all CPU targets, the situation for devels is inextricable.   
   >> Specially for old software like ARAnyM, that is in delicate situation.   
   >> It seems to me that peoples are discouraged with the GitHub complexity.   
   >    
   > Perhaps, but honestly it just looks like git to me with their own style    
   > of pull requests. Nothing outrageously different here. Do you have any   
   > concrete examples of "the situation for devels is inextricable"    
   > especially regarding GitHub?   
      
   Yes. Will I have to pay developers to obtain macOS or Windows binaries?   
   I remind you that we're speaking of *free software* hosted on GitHub.   
   All would be simpler, if the prioritized devel platform was ATARI VCS!   
      
   Regards,   
      
   --    
   François LE COAT   
   Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)   
   https://eureka.atari.org/   
      
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