Rob Lancaster replied to the topic 'Kstars 3.6.9' in the forum. 5 months ago

Yes, as indicated prior to this, unfortunately there was a craft (KDE Craft) issue when I built the DMG for the last version. The issue appeared to be that some code needed for KStars, specifically related to Qt Quick, was compiled on the Craft binary server in a way that it could only work on macOS Sonoma. It certainly would not be my intent to have KStars just work on Sonoma and I hope that we can resolve this, but after I returned from the Eclipse, when I tried to rebuild KStars and hopefully fix the issue, I found that the Craft binary cache had fully switched over to QT6, so to build with QT5 is now much more difficult. KStars has not updated to using QT6 yet, so when I tried to build a new DMG it took very very long and there was a problem. I did not have time to look into it at the time. I haven't had time to try again since then, sorry, so it might take some time to get a new DMG that will hopefully work on older versions of MacOS again. We might have to update everything to Qt6 before we can release another one, I am not sure yet.

Sorry about the delay. The good news is that a new recipe is in the works and daily builds will hopefully start up again soon, but we might have to resolve this QT6 issue before that happens.

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