On Sunday 05 December 2010 04:25:37 Craig Bradney wrote: > On 12/5/10 3:23 AM, John Culleton wrote: > > On Saturday 04 December 2010 13:54:07 Marie-No?lle Augendre wrote: > >> 2010/12/4 ehud.kaplan at gmail.com <ehud.kaplan at gmail.com> > >> > >>> My ONLY complaint about Linux is the long repository-updating > >>> delay that we typically have to put up with. This is true for > >>> Scribus, Lyx, TexLive and other useful programs. > >>> > >>> EK > >> > >> This is not true for all Linux distros. > >> That's why I left Ubuntu for Fedora a couple of months ago. > >> > >> Marie-No?lle > > > > I use Slackware and compile almost everything from source. So I > > am pretty much freed from repository sluggishness. For 1.5.0 > > (the only version that supports PDF X/1-a) I have no other > > option. > > > > The people who really suffer are the Mac OS users. The Mac > > version is always left to last it seems. > > No it is not.. but I had build problems on my laptop so it was > delayed a day or two. > > Craig
I was speaking in general, not just about Scribus. In theory Mac, being based on BSD, should be as easy to do as Linux. But I see all these posts about the Mac version with reference to Open Source programs in general. When I develop a trivial little app, like Tyro for indexing (written in Tcl/Tk) I can test it on my Linux partition and also my Windows XP partition. But I have no way to develop or test for Mac without investing big bucks in a machine just for that purpose. I see no ROI in that. -- John Culleton, typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
