Re: frescobaldi on mac

[Tim McNamara]

On Aug 16, 2013, at 3:40 AM, Davide Liessi <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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...

Very nice, David, and a huge thank you.  While MacPorts takes a few steps to 
use, it borders on trivial when the portfiles are correct.