On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 00:24 -0500, Sunil Joshi wrote: > Andreas & Martin: This is a great step forward for OSX native Scribus. > The popularity of Scribus with increase tremendously if it is developed > into a native application. Even though Fink is a great resource, many, > including me who are not so well versed with Unix, would find it a lot > easier to deal with a native OSX version. Thanks for your hard work. > Looking forward to a stand alone version some time in near future!
Fink and MacOS/X native are somewhat orthogonal. You can actually potentially build and install a MacOS/X native Scribus using fink - that's what Martin has been working on. It's also possible to make a standalone .app bundle that can be distributed as a .dmg . That's what I'm working on currently and what Andreas Vox helped kick off. It's actually largely working now, though not spectacularly polished. I just need to fix up the some lingering build issues and (most importantly) make plugins work properly and I might be able to put up an early preview .dmg. I'm on IRC a lot, so it'd be really good if we (Andreas, Martin and I) could get together at some point and discuss some of this, as I'm concerned that we're duplicating a lot of work here. BTW, current 1.3cvs when built for Qt/Mac picks the wrong paths under MacOS/X for a "normal" install, so it won't find the plugins etc. My fault I'm afraid. I'll make it use the static paths by default tonight, and add an --enable-bundle option to configure to generate an executable suited for inclusion in a .app bundle. -- Craig Ringer
