[Scribus] Scribus on OS X

[Kevin Walzer]

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I've spent a lot of time trying to get Scribus to build on OS X. In
theory, it should build, because Qt runs natively on the Mac. And, in
fact, Benjamin Reed did get version 1.0 running under Aqua, though it
was wobbly and didn't really work. However, later versions of Scribus
have added a lot of X11 dependencies to the code, especially with screen
display, and porting Scribus to the Mac now would require addressing
that somehow. My guess is that the X11 dependencies were added to get
the most out of the Linux platform, but that also means that there's no
easy way to rewrite them in a more generic, platform-neutral way without
possibly gutting the program itself.

Craig B. or Martin C., if I've made any misstatements here, please
clarify. Thanks.


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Kevin Walzer, PhD
WordTech Software--Open Source Applications and Packages for OS X
http://www.wordtech-software.com
http://www.smallbizmac.com
http://www.kevin-walzer.com
mailto:sw at wordtech-software.com
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