[gopher] New Cross-Platform Gopher GUI Client

James Mills prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Thu Aug 25 05:05:11 UTC 2016


Sorry that was my blindness there :P You are right about where it connects
to by default (or tries to).

But yeah this is totally not working; let me try to dig in to why...


James Mills / prologic

E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Kevin Veroneau <kevin at veroneau.net> wrote:

> That's odd, it's currently set to load gopher.veroneau.net by default.  I
> haven't seen the not responding on any of the platforms I tested it on, not
> sure what's going on there.  I only noticed a crash if there was no network
> available.
>
> You can run the binary from a Terminal if you run it from inside the
> Application bundle.  It might display some sort of output there.  This is
> my
> first time building an OS X app bundle, so maybe something in the plist is
> incorrect.
>
> On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 10:47:28 PM James Mills wrote:
> > So one major issue right now )blocker):
> >
> > a) Open App
> > b) It loads vernica.floodgap.com by default (fine)
> > c) Spins -- Not Responding (not responsive to GUI events, spinning wheel)
> >
> > Looking at process stats:
> >
> > consistent ~2.7% CPU util, 2 threads
> >
> > Should I just keep waiting? Or is there a bug?
> >
> > cheers
> > James
> >
> >
> > James Mills / prologic
> >
> > E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
> > W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Kevin Veroneau <kevin at veroneau.net>
> wrote:
> > > Cameron,  it might be possible to compile a version for Mac OS X 10.4,
> > > looking
> > > at the compatibility page, it looks like FPC 2.6.4 and Lazarus 1.2.6
> can
> > > build
> > > for OS X 10.4.
> > >
> > > http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_MacOS_X#Compatibility
> > >
> > > Once this Gopher client has matured enough, and you have about an hour
> to
> > > spare, you can try installing Xcode and Lazarus onto OS X 10.4 and
> > > running the
> > > compile process.  There is only one Lazarus package needed other than
> the
> > > base
> > > Lazarus components and that is TurboPowerIPro which is used for the
> HTML
> > > widget.  Even if this isn't compatible with needed version of Lazarus,
> we
> > > could just replace it with a different widget.
> > >
> > > On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 10:25:41 PM Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> > > > > Ooops I think you have a packaging problem.
> > > > >
> > > > > OS X 10.11.6 (El Captain) is unable to open the DMG.
> > > > > The error is "unrecognized disk image".
> > > >
> > > > It doesn't open on 10.4 either, though I strongly suspect the binary
> > > > isn't PowerPC compatible.
> > >
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