GRAMPS stores all its internal data in ~/Library/Application Support. So, to upgrade a Gramps application bundle to a newer version, just throw the old application in the Trash. Make a backup copy of your data, just in case, then download the new version of the application and just use it. If you don't like the new version and want the old one back, throw the new version in the Trash and fetch the old one back from the Trash. The Gramps version is shown in Finder if you use column view; otherwise right click on it and select Get Info.
==Building GRAMPS from Scratch==
Building Gramps from scratch is useful to produce a version not currently available as a binary (for example, a PPC version) or to produce a complete environment for debugging and further development, including debugging of all the C libraries Gramps uses, like gtk.
This is a command-line process. It's not too difficult, but you'll be using Terminal.app, not XCode. Unfortunately, Gtk has so far resisted efforts to get it to successfully cross-compile PPC on Intel or vice-versa, so the whole process must be repeated on machines of each architecture. '''''WebKit will not build on 10.4 (Tiger) or earlier systems, nor will it build against a 10.4 SDK. You must be running 10.5 (Leopard) or newer for this procedure to succeed!'''''
You'll need XCode, Apple's development environment. There's a copy on your OS X distribution DVD, or you can download the latest version from [http://developer.apple.com/technologies/xcode.html Apple], though you must register as a Mac developer. For Lion users, XCode is available for free from the App Store.
Next, read [http://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/OSX/Building the build instructions for Gtk-OSX], '''''especially the Prerequisites'''''. Download and run the [http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk-osx/plain/gtk-osx-build-setup.sh gtk-osx-build-install.sh] script, which will set up jhbuild for you.
''It's important that jhbuild is not confused by any existing MacPorts or Fink installation.'' For this reason, it can be convenient to create a new Mac User account and log in to that account.
If you are building for distribution, especially if you are running Snow Leopard on a 64-bit capable machine (Core2Duo, Core i5 or i7, or any Xeon) you should edit the file ~/.jhbuildrc-custom so that the call to <tt>sdk_setup</tt> looks like
setup_sdk(target="10.5", sdk_version="10.5", architectures=["i386"])
Lion doesn't support SDKs older than 10.6, so in that case the line should be:
setup_sdk(target="10.6", sdk_version="10.6", architectures=["i386"])
(If you're building on a PPC, you don't need to worry about this.)
If you're not familiar with using the unix command line, you might find the frequent use of "~" below puzzling. It refers to the user's home directory (mine is /Users/john; if your name is John, then yours probably is too.) You can use it that way in commands if your current directory is somewhere else.
jhbuild is installed in ~/Source/jhbuild, and produces a binary which appears in ~/.local/bin. You'll want to add ~/.local/bin to your path:
export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH
Next, you'll need to get a local copy of the gramps mac configuration stuff from svn (if you already have a gramps svn sandbox, then skip this step and substitute the path to it where appropriate below):
svn co https://gramps.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gramps/trunk/mac gramps-mac
That will make a current copy from the repository in your current directory, which we'll assume to be ~.
The Gtk-OSX build instructions are very straightforward, but we need to deviate from them a bit to keep from doing things more than once. Run the following commands from the terminal:
jhbuild bootstrap
Now we need to build berkeleydb:
jhbuild --moduleset=~/gramps-mac/gramps.modules build berkeleydb
And rebuild python to include the bsddb module (it will notice that we have berkeleydb and do it automatically)
jhbuild --moduleset=bootstrap.modules buildone --force python
Now we're ready to build everything else:
jhbuild --moduleset=~/gramps-mac/gramps.modules build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap meta-gtk-osx-core meta-gtk-osx-python gramps
jhbuild by default puts everything it is building in ~/gtk (controlled by the hidden files ~/.jhbuildrc and ~/.jhbuildrc-custom ). ~/gtk/source contains the downloaded sources, and ~/gtk/inst contains the built libraries and applications. More is built than is needed in the final Gramps application - for example, the build tools are themselves built.
At this point, you can do
jhbuild shell
gramps
at the command line and run gramps. Most everything will work (see the note about spelling dictionaries above).
Once you've done this once, you can generally get away with just running
jhbuild --moduleset=~/gramps-mac/gramps.modules build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap meta-gtk-osx-core meta-gtk-osx-python gramps
to update everything that has been changed since the previous build. Most of the time nothing will have changed except gramps itself.
If you want to build the svn trunk, you can substitute "gramps-svn" for "gramps". If you want to have both installed, you'll need to set up separate prefixes in .jhbuildrc-custom; gramps doesn't version its installations, so the most recent will overwrite the previous build.
==== Gramps 3.3 and EXIF Editing ====
Gramps 3.3.0 introduced a new module, EXIF Editing, which has two tricky dependencies, which JHBuild doesn't know how to handle yet. In order to evade the persnickityness of jhbuild's dependencies, they're given as "soft" dependencies -- you have to add them to your modules list. If you don't, Gramps will still build fine, you'll just get a warning notice about Exiv2 not being installed.
'''Warning:'''Boost-python will not successfully build with either the 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or 10.7 (Lion) SDKs. With 10.7 it won't build at all; with 10.6, it will build but will crash Python on import. Consequently you can't build EXIF editing using Lion, since earlier SDKs are not available.
The first is [http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/ Boost-python], a python interface for C++ provided as part of [http://www.boost.org/ Boost]. It uses its own build system, bjam. Since jhbuild doesn't know how to use bjam, it will download the package for you, then error out. Select item 4, "start a shell", and do the following:
cd tools/build/v2
./bootstrap.sh --with-toolset=darwin
./bjam --prefix="$PREFIX" install
cd ../../..
bjam toolset=darwin address-model=32 --prefix=$PREFIX --with-python --cmd-or-prefix=$PYTHON cxxflags="$CXXFLAGS" cflags="$CFLAGS" linkflags="$LDFLAGS" install
Once that's done, quit the shell and select "2" (ignore error) twice to move on to the next library, [http://tilloy.net/dev/pyexiv2/ PyExiv2], which also uses a different build system, [http://www.scons.org/ SCons]. The SCons folks are bright enough to use distutils, which JHBuild ''can'' handle, so that gets built and installed for you. JHBuild will stop again after downloading and extracting PyExiv for you, so once again select "4" to start a shell and run the following:
export CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -I$PREFIX/include"
export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$PREFIX/include"
export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -lpython2.7"
scons
scons install
ln $PREFIX/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libexiv2python.dylib $PREFIX/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libexiv2python.so
install_name_tool -id python2.7/site-packages/libexiv2python.dylib $PREFIX/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libexiv2python.dylib
Quit the shell and pick "2" a few more times to move on to the next module.
== Bundling ==
The next step is to create an application bundle. You'll need gtk-mac-bundler, so follow the instructions in the [http://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/OSX/Bundling Gtk-OSX Wiki] to download and install it.
You may need to edit <tt>~/gramps-mac/Info.plist</tt> to update the version number and copyright information.
Now open a jhbuild shell and run the bundler:
jhbuild shell
chmod +w $PREFIX/lib/libpython2.6.dylib
gtk-mac-bundler ~/gramps-mac/gramps.bundle
You'll have an application bundle named Gramps.app on your desktop.
== Packaging ==
To make an uploadable disk image, create a folder named "Gramps-arch-version", replacing "arch" with either Intel or PPC and "version" with the current version number. Drag your app bundle to this directory. Open your build directory and copy (option-drag) the files "FAQ", "COPYING", "README", and "NEWS" to the Gramps folder you just made. Rename each to have a ".txt" extension so that they're readable with QuickLook. You might also rename COPYING to License.txt so that it's meaning is more clear to users who aren't familiar with the GPL.
Now open Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility and select File>New Image From Folder and select your folder, then approve the name and location. You'll have a dmg ready for distribution.
Good Luck!
'''Note:''' The 3.1.2 installer left out two files:
#''_strptime.py''. You can get the file from [http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=3177 here].
#''keysyms.py''. You can get the file from [http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=3157 here].
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