VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 09 2019 - 08:42:46 CST

Hi,
  We will continue to make 32-bit builds available for the older revs of
MacOS X. As I pointed out earlier in parts of our discussion, there are
a number of limitations and incompatibilities in earlier versions of MacOS X
that would inhibit the cleanest approach for MacOS X Catalina from being
usable on some of the older MacOS X revs, so we'll have to maintain the
old builds for those other systems at least for the release of VMD 1.9.4.

After VMD 1.9.4 is released, we'll have to see where things stand for
support of the older MacOS X revs, but I don't plan to eliminate this
support immediately.

Best,
  John Stone

On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 07:58:42AM +0100, Edward Ditler wrote:
> Hi
>
> I???m really happy to see, that porting VMD to 64bit is going well.
>
> The provided binaries do not work on macOS 10.14.6 because of some missing symbols in libobjc.A.dylib. Will there be a cut, where vmd <= 1.9.3 will be for macOS <= 10.15 and vmd > 1.9.3 for macOS 10.16, or is it planned to support both macOS versions with the same binary?
>
>
> Thanks for your great work!
>
> Best,
>
> Edward
>
> > Am 08.12.2019 um 14:14 schrieb FX <fxcoudert_at_gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > If anyone is interested to test it and report issues/bugs, here is my current ???best effort??? build for macOS Catalina with new features enabled:
> >
> > - Retina display support (and it looks really good!)
> > - Command line editing (you can use arrows in the console to go back to previous commands, etc)
> > - Fixed icon so it???s perfectly crisp on Retina displays
> >
> > The build is available at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/08u3d0rvvurhk8o/VMD%201.9.4a38%20retina.zip?dl=0
> > The icon file, in case someone wants it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ye9edz1w62b6gj3/VMD.icns?dl=0
> >
> > Know issue:
> > - When resizing the window, it will become red until you perform any further action (click inside or rotate the structure).
> >
> > Please report any issue, so I can get them fixed.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > FX
> >
> > --
> > Dr. François-Xavier Coudert
> > Senior Researcher / Directeur de Recherche
> > CNRS, PSL University, Chimie ParisTech
> > Webpage: https://www.coudert.name/
> >
> 

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