It is not an axiom that anything open source has to be a pain in the ass. If the open source community put some effort into making things more usable instead of more complicated then maybe the year of desktop linux would come true one day.
It should IMO be a goal as important as any other for us to remove any obstacle for pyjamas users so that they can focus on developing pyjamas apps instead of wrestling library dependencies. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:26 PM, lkcl luke <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Jeffrey Van Voorst > <[email protected]> wrote: >> FWIW I am trying, half-heartedly, to install pyjamas desktop >> requirements on Mac OS X. I am stuck at homebrew barfing on gtk-doc. > > what the _heck_ are you doing? :) you don't need gtk-doc > >> My primary concern is: do users need to install all the requirements >> (I am assuming so). This makes the desktop less than awesome on that >> stupid (Mac OS X), and a pain in the arse to support on ancient linux >> distributions. Is there a way to get around this (on linux) without >> the need to download gigabytes of requirements? > > no. welcome to software development. sorry. > >> It is such concerns that are pushing me to primarily use the compiled >> javascript at this point as users of my program are likely to have a >> whole nasty soup of incompatible operating systems and versions. > > yyup. wonderfully ironic isn't it that the free software options > are so shit when the proprietary w32 one is so utterly simple, > requires an absolute minimum of additional dependencies > (python-ctypes), and just... works?? > > l. -- ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
