Comment 17 for bug 1384283

(Terry wrote me back via email, since he was having problems replying on Launchpad)

"Hello Roger,
Please excuse my direct contact, but I have been attempting to respond to your post to the hugin buglist, but there seems to be some problem with the server, it won't take my response.

>Using Oliver's workaround fixed it for me. I am running 10.10.3.

OK, that's a step forward.

>Terry, I didn't realize that all of the binaries were community
>binaries! How stable are the nightlies; would it be worth it to choose
>one as a version and release it as another binary? Alternately, how
>backportable is the fix to the stable 2014 version? Could I just make
>that 3-line change, throw it into an old version of the source, and see
>if it builds?

In my opinion, linux builds of the current source are quite stable. I regularly build Fedora packages to test that all is OK, and am always running a build of the latest (or nearly) source.
You could try a build of the current source, if you are able to do that, but I'm not sure if building on OSX has any complications. I would have guessed it would be pretty much as per linux, but I'm guessing.
Preparations are being made for a release (2015.0.0), but as that process depends on the available time of volunteers, I can't guess at how long that will take.

Contact me directly if you need any help with a local build, and I'll try to help as much as I can."