Re: [Denemo-devel] Denemo is too hard to install

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 09:23 +0100, Martin Larsson wrote:
> I discovered Denemo a couple of weeks ago and immediately,
what is the url of the thing you are trying to use?

>  I got very excited to try it out. However, after sitting in front of the 
> computer for several hours trying to install it, fetching dependency 
> packages, installing homebrew this, uninstalling MacPorts this, trying to 
> resolve error messages, and so on, I had to give up.
> 
> I’m not an expert in computer architecture and computer programming, but I’ve 
> taken a couple of courses in computer science. That is, I know my way around 
> my computer fairly well, but still, I wasn’t able to install Denemo.
> 
> If you want some kind of adoption of your program, you really have to make it 
> more accessible. I’m still curious to try it out, but as long as I’m going to 
> have to quit my day job to get it working, I don’t see it happening anytime 
> soon.

Someone recently said on this list that the link to MacOS on denemo.org
now gave them a working Denemo on a Mac which is, I guess (because you
mentioned MacPorts) what you have.

http://denemo.org/downloads/denemo-1.1.0-0.darwin-x86.tar.bz2

Richard