On May 6, 2:36 pm, zpcspm <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 6, 9:05 pm, Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 May 2010 09:14:09 -0700 (PDT) > > > Nathan Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This email is a plea. Please support my platform, and that of Carlo, > > > and the others who tried to build Leo on Mac and failed but just > > > didn't post here! > > > We need someone who has a Mac and the knowledge and inclination > > to either package Leo for Mac or at least describe how to install it safely. > > If our community doesn't include such a person, we're stuck. > > This is straight to the point. Online communities that gather around > open-source projects are self-organizing. The absence of Mac leo users > is a fact, not a conspiracy of the leo community. Some call this luck > (good or bad), some call this statistics :-)
Carlo and I represent the vocal minority of Mac users who would like to use Leo, and it seems you're telling us that in order to do so, we must start by inventing a working installation procedure. Seriously? If you're depending on a Mac user to essentially go from zero project involvement to active Leo development before they can even begin using the product, there's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. I recognize that open source communities depend upon people solving the problems they personally feel the need to solve (scratching your own itch). Unfortunately for this case, I'm already involved in several open source projects and do not have time to also become a Leo developer. But Leo is already in version 4; I would expect that the developers of a project with that rather mature version number to want an "I can't install it" issue overcome soon! But perhaps most importantly, the Leo homepage describes Leo as "Portable...runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS X." If the development team has no time to get a Mac version working, it would demonstrate integrity to alter that statement. Nathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
