Thanks a lot for testing the MacPorts port, Peter. I'm glad to know it went smoothly after the Xcode download.
I've submitted a MacPorts update for Solfege version 3.14.1; it'll probably be accepted and available after a few days. --Allen On Mar 31, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Peter Dann wrote: > Now that I've calmed down (!) I agree with all Allen's points below. > After I installed Xcode 3.1 the remainder of the installation worked > flawlessly. > > The installation process writes a lot of notes to the console. Most > of these are just "unpacking this", "building this" and so on. I did > notice at one point, though, a message indicating that I would need > to perform the following steps manually after the install completed: > > sudo port install python_select > sudo python_select python25 > > I ran these steps manually after the MacPorts install finished. > > Solfege appears to be working fine. I'd say Allen and Rainer have > done a great job. > > Regards, > > Peter Dann > > > On 31/03/2009, at 11:09 AM, Allen McBride wrote: > >> Sorry about that. Downloading Xcode 3.1 is definitely the most >> time-consuming (though not the most difficult) part of the whole >> process. On the bright side, I'm pretty sure those 30 minutes of >> installs were not wasted; if they didn't give errors, my >> understanding is that those ports didn't require Xcode 3.1 and were >> installed correctly. I discovered the new 3.1 requirement in the >> same way (by getting an error on a port install). Once I installed >> Xcode 3.1, MacPorts just went on with installing the ports that had >> failed before, it didn't re-install the old ones, and this hasn't >> caused me any trouble so far. I'll update the Solfege wiki to >> emphasize MacPorts' Xcode version requirement. >> >> --Allen >> >> >> >> On Mar 30, 2009, at 7:22 PM, Peter Dann wrote: >> >>> Hi Tom, >>> >>> I was able to install MacPorts OK on Mac PowerBook Pro running OS X >>> Leopard. >>> >>> However, my attempt to install solfege failed, because I am running >>> the version of Xcode (3.0) that shipped with OS X Leopard at the >>> time >>> I bought it. The MacPorts install for OS X Leopard requires Xcode >>> version 3.1. The MacPorts installation notes imply that you can >>> simply >>> install the version of Xcode that came with your OS X Leopard >>> installation disks. For some lucky users this may be true (perhaps >>> Apple now ship Xcode 3.1 with these disks) It is not true for me. >>> >>> It took MacPorts about 30 minutes of installing various pieces of >>> software before it checked that I had an incompatible version of >>> Xcode. This strikes me as somewhat dumb. Shouldn't a smart installer >>> be able to check the pre-requisites first, before it builds and >>> installs 30 minutes worth of software? >>> >>> My fault, obviously. in part. I should have checked what version of >>> Xcode I had installed. I just assumed I had installed the right >>> version because it was the one that shipped with OS X. >>> >>> Looks like I'm going to need to download a 1G (sic) pre-requisite >>> just >>> to upgrade solfege! >>> >>> All in all, I found the fink installation process that I previously >>> used to install solfege easier to use - though I guess this could >>> still work if only users followed the instructions. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Peter Dann >>> >>> >>> On 29/03/2009, at 6:16 AM, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: >>> >>>> Nice work! >>>> People, please post a reply to this message to the list if you have >>>> tried the macport, and let us know if it works or not. >>>> >>>> Tom Cato >>>> >>>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Allen McBride <[email protected] >>>>> wrote: >>>>> Hi Tom Cato and everyone, >>>>> >>>>> With the help of MacPorts project manager Rainer Müller, Solfege >>>>> 3.14.0 is now available via MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/). >>>>> I'll >>>>> work on writing up basic instructions for the wiki soon, >>>>> explaining >>>>> what MacPorts is and where to find instructions for installing and >>>>> using it. In the meantime, anyone who already uses MacPorts >>>>> should >>>>> be >>>>> able to install Solfege in the usual MacPorts way. If you try >>>>> it and >>>>> run into trouble, let me know. I think Rainer and I are the only >>>>> people who have tested it so far. >>>>> >>>>> Details: >>>>> Rainer wrote a patchfile for default.config, so a Mac user using >>>>> MacPorts shouldn't need to mess with Solfege's preferences to get >>>>> basic MIDI playback working. So no more "No module named >>>>> _solfege_c_midi" error, hopefully. Also, in order to keep things >>>>> simple for now, the port does not attempt to install CSound for >>>>> the >>>>> intonation exercises, nor does it attempt to install audio >>>>> converters >>>>> for lesson file export. Users can still add these on themselves. >>>>> >>>>> --Allen >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Solfege-devel mailing list >>>>> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >>>>> with a subject of "unsubscribe", or visit >>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/solfege-devel >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Tom Cato Amundsen <[email protected]> http:// >>>> www.solfege.org/ >>>> GNU Solfege - free ear training http://www.gnu.org/software/ >>>> solfege/ >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Solfege-devel mailing list >>>> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to solfege-devel- >>>> [email protected] >>>> with a subject of "unsubscribe", or visit >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/solfege-devel >>>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Solfege-devel mailing list >>> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >>> with a subject of "unsubscribe", or visit >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/solfege-devel >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Solfege-devel mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe", or visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/solfege-devel
