|
Events
|
|
Written by Patrick Talbot | Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:12
|
|
Hi all,
I am looking for sponsors for the BrowserSuite:
I would like to stabilize the last issues on Mac OS X for v1.0, but am facing a problem because Christopher Deckers, the author of the DJNativeSwing library has no Mac to test his library.
Some parts of his lib are really complex (especially the native calls), and he is the only one who can really fix all this. In the past, we spent entire week-ends on skype sessions with trial/errors but he has no visibility for his part, and I'm the one doing all the tweaking and endless tests on Mac, which is not that practical (he lives in France so there is a 6h delay in our communications).
Christopher recently said that if only he had a Mac to test it he would be able to find workarounds for much of the current issues.
Maybe there are people around with a recent Intel Mac sitting in a corner who could make a donation?
Otherwise I would like to open a subscription to sponsor him with a Mac mini.
This little thing cost 800 euros in France, which is roughly US$ 1000, so if I could find 10 people willing to contribute that wouldn't be too much of an investment for all.
Right now 4 people already said they would help with up to $100.
Would you be contributing too? If so please tell me by replying here or by sending an email to admin at servoy-stuff dot net
I will publish the list of the sponsor here and on ServoyForge.
Thanks in advance,
-Patrick
|
Comments
I would like to thank all of those who contributed (in the order of payment received):
* Marc Boegem for Newbase bv www.newbase.nl
* David Pearce himself
* Graham Greensall for Worxinfo Ltd www.worxinfo.com
* Royden Howie for 4Community 4community.com
* Rutger Slager for STB www.stb.nl
* David Workman for DataMosaic www.datamosaic.com
* Lachlan Dunlop for Lach.net www.lach.net
* Harjo Kompanie for DirectICT www.directict.nl
* Martin Caetano for ProRM www.prorm.com
* James Dcunha himself
* Juan-Carlos Sanchez for Standford University www.law.stanford.edu
* Jeff Bader himself
* Win Hocu for Hocu Systems www.hocu.nl
* Jan Aleman for Servoy www.servoy.com
Also thanks to all of you who did offer their own Mac or remote access and for all the encouragements!
Now is time for Christopher and I to workaround the last bad issues still present on Mac OS X and create a BrowserSuite v1.0 final!
I will give that a try (with VirtualBox) for the fun of it.
But this really shouldn't deter anyone from donating, since for all practical reason there's no such thing as the real thing!
Thanks!
I find it even more convenient to have everything on one machine.
I thought that you couldn't put a Virtual Mac on Windows (except for OS X Server which is not the OS that needs testing in this case), unless you talk about remote access?
Someone suggested a VNC access too but personally I tried this once and the display update was so slow that I gave up quickly with frustration.
Anyway as said before, we're almost there, so having a proper CPU will be more practical I think.
Thanks!
-Patrick
We are almost there!
Already 9 people answered and are ready to put as much as $100, I will wait until next week and see if there are more, and will post the names here, cheers!
RSS feed for comments to this post.