Installation (Mac) update about gitextensionsdoc

[KindDragon]

/cc @fraga

[fraga]

tks @KindDragon. Well @spdr870 gitextensions it's very unstable on mono and mono on mac is a bit worse because it does not support some of the components mono for linux supports, furthermore, rendering fonts and forms mono for linux and on OSX are different AFAIK...
Also building gitextensions on non-windows platform was quite challenging after nuget introduction. We were able to create some scripts to build and download nuget but we still need to fix the runtime.

We need more people willing to help on the mono side for non-windows platform

[fraga]

I previously wrote iOS when I actually meant OSX =)

[KindDragon]

Sourceforge static show us that only 4% of users downloads GitExtensions from non-Windows platform http://sourceforge.net/projects/gitextensions/files/Git%20Extensions/stats/os?dates=2000-11-28+to+2013-06-28

[fraga]

so the question remains - should we continue to distribute gitextensions to non-windows platform @spdr870 ?

[jbialobr]

gitextensions/gitextensions#1776

[spdr870]

Sourceforge also claims that we have 50 android users..:)

Currently I have to work on a mac at work because I am writing a mobile application for the three main mobile platforms. The overhead in testing and keeping everything stable on all three is a horrible experience. Supporting gitext for Windows, Mac and Linux is even harder because we use winforms.

Currently I use sourcetree on osx. It is ok, but I like gitext more (maybe I'm prejudiced). On Ubuntu, it works a lot better but it still crashes randomly sometimes.

I probably will try to patch gitext for macosx today, because I believe the only problem is the spelling checker. The spelling checker control uses a lot of native calls for rendering the wiggly lines. I can easily disable this for non-windows platforms. For me, cross platform is not a priority.

Official (stable) non-windows support is hard to accomplish. If we continue to distribute it for non-windows platforms, I think we should at least mention that it is unstable....

[jbialobr]

In what language(s) do you write this mobile app?

[spdr870]

[off-topic]
We use html, javascript and phonegap. But we still need to write some native code (java, c# and objective c) for each platform.

Just testen on macosx without spelling checker, still crashes when opening commit dialog.
[/off-topic]

[fraga]

@spdr870 it is spell checker that crashes the forms, and a lot of native calls. I couldn't focus on patching gitext for mac, you can see one commit here to try to fix this fraga/gitextensions@0a95e22

The branch is not merged on master (latest commit fraga/gitextensions@2c85bdc) but maybe could be a start point.

[spdr870]

@fraga tnx, i will test this monday...

[fraga]

let me know @spdr870, I'm also interested, I've put together some code regarding this https://github.com/fraga/gitextensions/tree/stableMonoMac

[spdr870]

@fraga, I testen your branch. It still crashes when opening the commit dialog. I will try to debug it on the mac.

Maybe better to start another issue for this, it is a bit offtopic here.

[fraga]

@spdr870 what's your mono version? Also, are you using xamarin studio?

[spdr870]

Not sure, will check as soon as I have access to the mac again. I am not a regular mac user...

[axbenchmark]

ok, maybe I'm the only one! =)

[gerhardol]

Closing, mono is not supported in 3.x
The documentation could always be improved for 2.x, but a more specific issue should be opened.