[sldev] [VIEWER} Mac madness

[Lawson English]

Alissa Sabre wrote:
>> I wonder how many people are using Macs to write patches?
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> I'm doing.
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> Mine is an Intel Mac mini, not PowerPC, however.
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>> The "Development" target, designed to facilitate 
>> debugging, causes runtime errors at the lanuch of the client, so I have 
>> to use the "Deployment" target instead.
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> If you experience the error 100%, I'm not having the issue.
> Development target generally works fine for me.  It sometimes crushes
> (1 out of 10 runs, or something like that) if I run the Development
> binary under gdb.  I filed the issue as VWR-2190.
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Thanks for the reference. Mine is 100% though. G5 not intel.

>> The second one is a killer,
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>> I'll submit a jira with the screenshots of both the pre-built and 
>> home-built versions. If any Mac developer wants a copy of the ant, I can 
>> send it to them for testing.
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> I want that object for testing.
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Others in this thread say its a known problem but...

> If you are OK, I think it's better to put that object somewhere
> in-world and include the slurl to the object in your JIRA filing.
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> Ah!  Somewhere in Hippotropolis should be good for the purpose.  I'm
> happy to provide some of my fief for the pupose.
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I'll leave it on your land, or send you a copy. It has full permissions 
for modding. Someone has already made a stab at an avatar using it, and 
a pet ant should be a fun thing. Been meaning to animate it but haven't 
gotten around to it. It should be used more often throughout the world, 
IMHO, but the no-mod version has made that more difficult to do.