On Saturday 05 March 2005 20:25, Louis Desjardins wrote: > Hi, > > I don't have much to say on the programming part of a Mac OS port. > Unfortunately, I will be of no help for that part of the job. :) > > However I feel I have to say how much I find this idea exciting. As a > long time Mac/Quark user, I know many people in this "community" will > be reluctant, as Kevin Walzer points it, to install Fink and use X11 > - although it is not that hard. A standalone app would be much > appreciated. Especially if the install process is a straightforward > Mac thing. There are *lots* of people out there that I am sure will > be absolutely astonished by Scribus running on Macintosh. Many of > these people don't know a thing about Windows, and Linux is not on > the same orbit as theirs either. > > I acknowledge there are pricing issues with Macs... but when you > already own one, there is nothing left better than use it! Imagine > the effect in DTP classes, all Mac equipped... > > Porting Scribus to OS X will give lots of professional *no* excuses > for not taking a very close look at Scribus. Once they do, they'll > understand something is really going on! > > Is this really possible!? It would be great! > > Louis
Sure its possible. In the worst case we can just supply all the libraries ourselves. Not very disk space friendly but once the X dependency is really gone it might not be that much really. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050305/12ffbcc1/attachment.pgp
