Re: frescobaldi on mac

[Davide Liessi]

2013/8/16 Christian Andersson <address@hidden>:
> This issue with running Frescobaldi on MacOS X must be one of the most
> long-running among threads of this list. Why can't some of you Mac users
> please take your responsibility for the community, and see to that a working
> distribution gets created, from which everybody (with Macs) can benefit,
> with all the tweaks and dependencies, and then donate this for download from
> the official Frescobaldi-site. I'd love to be able to recommend a number of
> friends of mine, sadly (for them) with Apple boxes, to take a look at
> Frescobaldi, but given the state of affairs here this is simply not possible
> at the moment. Of course it is easier to do this in, e.g., a Linux platform,
> but I just can't imagine that it would be that impossible for Macs as is
> suggested by all these howtos, neither of which seems to work for everybody.

Yesterday I submitted to MacPorts new Portfiles for frescobaldi and
python-poppler-qt4.
There's a couple of small changes that are needed, but I hope they
will be approved soon.
After they are in MacPorts' repository, frescobaldi should be easier to install.
It will essentially be a matter of two/three MacPorts commands (plus
maybe install Qsynth as a fluidsynth GUI and a soundfont for MIDI
support): no more manually compiling the software.
(I know, Mac users are more used to single packages you can download
and copy in /Application/ folder. MacPorts is not that simple, but I
would still say it is easy to use.)

I will announce on this list when the Portfiles will be approved and
available to all users.