On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 18:48, Kevin Walzer wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've spent a lot of time trying to get Scribus to build on OS X. In > theory, it should build, because Qt runs natively on the Mac. And, in > fact, Benjamin Reed did get version 1.0 running under Aqua, though it > was wobbly and didn't really work. However, later versions of Scribus > have added a lot of X11 dependencies to the code, especially with screen > display, and porting Scribus to the Mac now would require addressing > that somehow. My guess is that the X11 dependencies were added to get > the most out of the Linux platform, but that also means that there's no > easy way to rewrite them in a more generic, platform-neutral way without > possibly gutting the program itself. > > Craig B. or Martin C., if I've made any misstatements here, please > clarify. Thanks. >
Sounds about right Kevin. I would really be interested to hear of someone out there whos wanting to play with Gentoo MacOSX. I'm not sure where things are up to but I know it is now released and work progresses. I know freetype 2.1.5 is available but the rest of the dependencies are not yet. I am planning on following this activity closely as I am an x86 Gentoo user and Gentoo MacOSX could be a very promising thing for Scribus in the short term. I think in the 1.3 development series we will be able to make reasonable headway into making a clearer distinction between various areas of the code which may lead to the possibility of plugging in a new XYZ library in the future. Never know.. ;) Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040726/17afdf70/attachment.pgp
