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Re: Help needed creating a Mac OS X installer for Frescobaldi


From: Stan Sanderson
Subject: Re: Help needed creating a Mac OS X installer for Frescobaldi
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:22:41 -0500

On Mar 22, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Rodolfo Zitellini <address@hidden> wrote:

> I can give this a try. I tried using py2app on frescobaldi but it had
> some issues and I didn't have time to sort them out.
> 
> Rodolfo
> 
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Wilbert Berendsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Unfortunately I don't have access to a Mac. But it would be very nice
>> if someone is able to create an installer for the Macintosh (by
>> creating/adapting a 'freeze.py'-like script) for Frescobaldi.
>> 
>> This means that an Application Bundle would be created, containing
>> PyQt4, Python, portmidi and python-poppler-qt4. The cx_Freeze python
>> module (also used by the freeze.py script that creates a Windows
>> installer) is able to handle that.
>> 
>> Here[1] is an example of a Python script that freezes an application
>> comparable to Frescobaldi (in that it also uses PyQt4), with support
>> for creating a Mac DMG file containing all the needed libraries.
>> 
>> [1] http://code.google.com/p/iep/source/browse/freezeScript.py
>> 
>> Is anyone here able to understand the application bundle part of this
>> and to create a freeze_macox.py script for Frescobaldi, based on the
>> exising freeze.py[2] and the other example?
>> 
>> [2] https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/blob/master/freeze.py
>> 
>> Otherwise I would need to setup a donation infracture just to get a Mac
>> for building the installer :-) (although it would also help furthering
>> development and testing of Frescobaldi in general on Mac OS X :-)
>> 
>> --
>> Wilbert Berendsen
>> (http://www.wilbertberendsen.nl)

I would be happy to help when you get to the testing stage but haven't the 
skills to do more. My platforms are PPC (PowerBook) and x86 (iMac) running 
10.5.8.

Stan


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