Re: v3.0 release on hold

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Robert Eckhardt <reckhardt(at)pivotal(dot)io>
Cc: Joao De Almeida Pereira <jdealmeidapereira(at)pivotal(dot)io>, Akshay Joshi <akshay(dot)joshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Murtuza Zabuawala <murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Khushboo Vashi <khushboo(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Syed Fahar Abbas <fahar(dot)abbas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
Subject: Re: v3.0 release on hold
Date: 2018-04-03 15:04:42
Message-ID: CA+OCxoyowmBEg7y6uML3C2rybicZP4=HzQ7DFJ2YVG=7jOPE0A@mail.gmail.com
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I'm thinking build Monday, release Thursday.

Objections?

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Robert Eckhardt <reckhardt(at)pivotal(dot)io>
wrote:

> All,
>
> Where are we with respect to cutting this release?
>
> -- Rob
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 9:59 AM, Joao De Almeida Pereira <
> jdealmeidapereira(at)pivotal(dot)io> wrote:
>
>> Hi Hackers,
>>
>> Did we had any progress on the things that are holding the release back?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Joao
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 9:26 AM Akshay Joshi <
>> akshay(dot)joshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dave
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Akshay Joshi <
>>> akshay(dot)joshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:24 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> 2) Starting a second instance of the app bundle on Mac doesn't
>>>>>>>>>> always open a new pgAdmin window as it should. It works fine in the
>>>>>>>>>> debugger, or if you start the app with a command like:
>>>>>>>>>> "/Applications/pgAdmin\ 4.app/Contents/MacOS/pgAdmin4". It
>>>>>>>>>> doesn't work if you double-click the appbundle or use a command like "open
>>>>>>>>>> /Applications/pgAdmin\ 4.app"
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Still working on this, not found any solution yet.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not able to figure out the solution yet. I have tried to
>>>>>>> debug the code, but every time it will create a new instance(tray icon). Do
>>>>>>> I need to look into the code or something related to app bundle may be some
>>>>>>> settings in info.plist or any other pointer?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Have a look at the code around line 85 an onwards of pgAdmin4.cpp. It
>>>>>> creates the shared memory interlock (and log/address files) based on the
>>>>>> current username and a hash of the executable name/path. My suspicion is
>>>>>> that the path hash (which is calculated from argv[0] on line 72) is for
>>>>>> some reason getting a different value each time when launched via the
>>>>>> Finder or "open", thus the interlock is failing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So I took a look at this, and it seems the code is just fine. What is
>>>>> happening is that macOS only allows a single instance of an app to run at
>>>>> once. Whilst that is what we want of course, macOS is causing the new
>>>>> instance to exit before it has a change to open a new pgAdmin window. Using
>>>>> "open -n ..." or calling the embedded executable directly resolves that
>>>>> issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, there's another challenge to figure out... :-(
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> OK. Will try to figure that out.
>>>>
>>>
>>> After googled I have tried following solution:
>>>
>>> 1. Create a shell script "launch.sh" and kept it in "/Applications/pgAdmin\
>>> 4.app/Contents/MacOS" folder. That shell script will contain the command
>>> "open -n /Applications/pgAdmin\ 4.app/Contents/MacOS/pgAdmin4".
>>> Change the "CFBundleExecutable" parameter of Info.plist from "pgAdmin4" to
>>> "launch.sh". It didn't work, shall script didn't launch.
>>> 2. Create one apple script with command like "do shell execute "/Applications/pgAdmin\
>>> 4.app", compile it and save it as Application. It create the app bundle,
>>> copy contents of pgAdmin4 app to this newly created application. But the
>>> problem is it opens and having icon in the dock and no response on double
>>> click (second time).
>>>
>>> Will continue to figure out some other solutions tomorrow.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dave Page
>>>>> Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
>>>>> Twitter: @pgsnake
>>>>>
>>>>> EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>>>>> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> *Akshay Joshi*
>>>>
>>>> *Sr. Software Architect *
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Phone: +91 20-3058-9517 <+91%2020%203058%209517>Mobile: +91
>>>> 976-788-8246 <+91%2097678%2088246>*
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Akshay Joshi*
>>>
>>> *Sr. Software Architect *
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Phone: +91 20-3058-9517 <+91%2020%203058%209517>Mobile: +91
>>> 976-788-8246 <+91%2097678%2088246>*
>>>
>>
>

--
Dave Page
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