Nested on Mac??

[Garth Goldwater]

So I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'd like to try to build nested for mac. Has anyone done this before/does anyone know how I can figure out how to do this?

[Garth Goldwater]

I'm willing to go through a lot of pain and document how to do it/write up a tutorial if someone can give me a hand. I'll even package a binary from the build if I can figure out how to do that. This program seems awesome and to be exactly what I have been looking for but obviously I haven't been able to try it out yet.

[Carlos Jenkins]

Hi Garth,

Sorry for the late answer, I was investigating how to accomplish a Mac version.

El 28 de enero de 2012 14:27, Garth Goldwater <garth.g...@gmail.com> escribió:

So I have no idea what I'm doing,

Nor did I when I started programming Nested.

 

but I'd like to try to build nested for mac.

That would be great.

 

Has anyone done this before/does anyone know how I can figure out how to do this?

I've never ported Software to Mac, I don't have a system to test with.

In any case, Nested is written in Python (>= 2.6) and uses PyGtk (GTK+ bindings >= 2.24) for the GUI. If you need document preview you'll also need python-webkitgtk. All of them are available on MacPorts website:

http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=python27

http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=py27-gtk

http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=py27-webkit

The only problem I see is that the version currently in MacPorts of py27-gtk is the 2.22. I think Nested can work in it but GUI translations of some widget will not be displayed.

I think that with the above you can execute Nested. Now, what would be really great is to create a package so other Mac users can install it. Now, that, I don't know how to do it.

Another thing that would be required for a great Mac package is the ability to use a LaTeX distribution (so you can actually publish as PDF). On GNU/Linux TexLive is used, on Windows MikTeX is used, on Mac there is actually a placeholder on the code but no functionallity has been written. Maybe MacTeX? http://www.tug.org/mactex/2011/ . To be used I just need to know where the pdflatex command line program is installed.

Thanks again.

Kind regards

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Carlos Jenkins

http://carlos.jenkins.co.cr/

[Carlos Jenkins]

More great articles:

http://www.gtk.org/download/macos.php

http://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/OSX/Bundling (some hints on how to do the packaging)