Unfriendly packages for OS X installation/upgrading

[Mischa Spiegelmock]

Hello, from the perspective of someone on OS X trying to install/upgrade gstreamer I wanted to give feedback that the user experience leaves much to be desired. 

The website says:

Mac OS X

A .framework for Mac OS X can be found here. It is provided and maintained by the GStreamer project.

I click “here” and get an apache directory listing of versions. Not the friendliest thing. The common case is I want the latest version. Could be nicer.

Find the latest version, click the “dmg” file, end up with this:

Which one do I want? All of them? I have no idea. Why not have one package that installs everything? What is the common case here?

I pick one more or less at random. I get this error message:

So the OS X installer is basically unusable for most users.

I would like to help improve this situation. Perhaps I can help make one single package. I seem to recall it being that way previously?

Regarding a certificate, it is basically required on OS X that you sign your code now. Sadly. I am willing to purchase and donate a $99 Mac App Developer certificate for gstreamer if necessary, and I can volunteer to sign releases or give the cert to whoever currently packages them. Whatever works just let me know. I’m willing to help fix it up but I need someone to point me in the right direction.

Thoughts?

Mischa

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[Sebastian Dröge-3]

On Mo, 2016-07-11 at 11:17 -0700, Mischa Spiegelmock wrote:

> Hello, from the perspective of someone on OS X trying to
> install/upgrade gstreamer I wanted to give feedback that the user
> experience leaves much to be desired. 
>
> The website says:
> Mac OS X
> A .framework for Mac OS X can be found here. It is provided and
> maintained by the GStreamer project.
>
> I click “here” and get an apache directory listing of versions. Not
> the friendliest thing. The common case is I want the latest version.
> Could be nicer.

Indeed, that should come together with a website that in general looks
like from this century ;)

> Find the latest version, click the “dmg” file, end up with this:

That's exactly the problem: you want the .pkg files.

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[Sebastian Dröge-3]

On Di, 2016-07-12 at 00:09 +0300, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> 
> > Find the latest version, click the “dmg” file, end up with this:
>
> That's exactly the problem: you want the .pkg files.

To give more details, the dmg contains files that you can integrate
into your own .pkg installer, depending on which parts of GStreamer you
need.

The normal .pkg contains the runtime parts of the framework, the -devel
.pkg contains headers, etc which can be used for development. If you
want to do development, you need both of them.

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