I ran into unexpected problems today while trying to wrap up my PLIP for the review today — in short, there doesn't seem to be any (!) way to get any version of Plone running on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) at the moment: The Unified Installers fail, buildout-based install fails, and any combination of MacPorts Python (current release, trunk from their SVN), binary Python and GCC (4.0, 4.2) versions fail while compiling parts of Zope.
I spent 6 hours today with the help of messieurs Glick, Steele and McMahon today trying to make it work, but there's something very weird going on (for example, the Acquisition egg compiles properly, but after reporting that it's successfully compiled, can't be found — if you're interested, here's the output <http://pastebin.com/m6df313f>). (And if you know what's going on here, it would be great if you can help out, since we also need to solve this — preferrably before Snow Leopard is released, which may be as soon as end of this month.) Since I have fully migrated to Snow Leopard on my work laptop as part of testing Firefox on 10.6 (and that happened just before my vacation), I need to locate a computer that runs OS 10.5 before I can put together the running version of the theme product. Here's what I put together before I went on vacation, and that I have on my laptop at the moment: - An updated main_template that uses HTML5 (XHTML variant) that adds various structural elements like <sidebar> and various other cleanups. No changes to class/ID structure so far, though — so existing themes should work. (the only exception is if they do stuff like table.* in CSS, ie. depend on the tag instead of the class/ID name). HTML5 renders fine in all browsers, btw — they just don't style the new elements, which we aren't putting visual styles on anyway. - A tested, robust grid system (the same as I have shown at Plone Symposium East, and that we'll use for Plone 5) that supports both fixed and fluid widths. No tables in the layout anymore. Works in IE6 too. - A new design from Iain (screenshot<http://dev.plone.org/plone/attachment/ticket/9315/plone%204%20theme.png>) that I have implemented as a static HTML version on top of the Plone markup (with the main_template changes. Note that the typography and pull-down menu will be different — closer to what you see on plone.org right now. - A new CSS that implement's Iain's layout with the changes discussed in the ticket. Still missing are things like print CSS and (if I get the time) a mobile/iPhone stylesheet using the @media selector. - CSS doesn't use base_properties, but is color-neutral except for a couple of properties (e.g. link color) that are pulled out separately to the top of the CSS file, so they are easy to override, should you need to. No DTML magic. - Three-column layout approach is intact for Plone 4, we'll move to a freer layout as part of Plone 5, so no change here either. - A theme skeleton — plonetheme.sunburst<https://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plonetheme.sunburst/trunk/>— that Denys checked in for me while I was flying across the Atlantic. Unfortunately this is just a blank skeleton still, since I can't get Plone running at the moment. What's missing was to pull these together on top of the current Plone 4 checkout, which should take 4-6 hours including basic testing to have something ready for the first review deadline. I completed the core of the work before I went on vacation, and knew that I would only have one day when returning from vacation to put together the package, so I had the entire day reserved to complete the actual theme product. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way I can get Plone running on my current laptop, so I have to find another computer to do it on. I'm going to humbly (and embarrassingly) ask for your permission to submit my PLIP for review late — I have access to a computer running OS X 10.5 tomorrow, so I will most likely have it ready by the end of Monday/Tuesday. I assume you have enough to do the first 24 hours of the PLIP submission deadline that it won't feel like you're lacking things to do in the meantime. :) It sucks, and I'm sorry — I really didn't expect this to be an issue at all. -- Alexander Limi · http://limi.net
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