> A major sticking point for Mac OS X users is the fact that Plucker 
> has to be run from the command line. I suspect that nothing less 
> than a fully-blown Aqua GUI would satisfy them, and that is a 
> non-trivial thing to write. Mac users are finicky.

Ah, well, might as well ignore it, then.  Not interested in diving
into Aqua.  Though perhaps the Desktop could be ported -- has
wxWindows been Carbonized or Aquafied yet?

> Also keep in mind that neither Python nor NetPBM (or alternatives) 
> come preinstalled on Mac OS X. These can be installed using Fink, a 
> package manager for Mac OS X - http://fink.sourceforge.net/ - maybe 
> someone could come up with the scripts to allow Plucker to be 
> installed via Fink.

My thinking was to package the parser up into a single executable, so
that you wouldn't have to install Python or NetPBM.

Bill

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