[Scribus] Mac OS port

[Craig Bradney]

On Saturday 05 March 2005 20:25, Louis Desjardins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't have much to say on the programming part of a Mac OS port.
> Unfortunately, I will be of no help for that part of the job. :)
>
> However I feel I have to say how much I find this idea exciting. As a
> long time Mac/Quark user, I know many people in this "community" will
> be reluctant, as Kevin Walzer points it, to install Fink and use X11
> - although it is not that hard. A standalone app would be much
> appreciated. Especially if the install process is a straightforward
> Mac thing. There are *lots* of people out there that I am sure will
> be absolutely astonished by Scribus running on Macintosh. Many of
> these people don't know a thing about Windows, and Linux is not on
> the same orbit as theirs either.
>
> I acknowledge there are pricing issues with Macs... but when you
> already own one, there is nothing left better than use it! Imagine
> the effect in DTP classes, all Mac equipped...
>
> Porting Scribus to OS X will give lots of professional *no* excuses
> for not taking a very close look at Scribus. Once they do, they'll
> understand something is really going on!
>
> Is this really possible!? It would be great!
>
> Louis

Sure its possible. In the worst case we can just supply all the libraries 
ourselves. Not very disk space friendly but once the X dependency is really 
gone it might not be that much really.

Craig
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