Hi all, >From experience, I think Homebrew should be suggested as the primary means of >installation. When I first attempted to use tesseract, I spent hours fighting >macports and then trying to compile tesseract myself. I was about to give up >when I finally happened upon homebrew which worked perfectly the first time.
Installation is the user’s first impression of the software so it’s rather important. - hugi > On 21. ágú. 2015, at 14:14, Allistair <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK but you forget some users will prefer to use MacPorts. Instead of forcing > Homebrew onto them, I see no harm in offering alternates to accommodate > different tastes. > > On 21 August 2015 at 15:07, Nick White <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 02:13:17PM +0100, Allistair wrote: > > This, I think, just illustrates there is no one-size-fits-all approach. All > > methods should be enumerated for installing Tesseract for Mac. > > I disagree. Mac OS X is a homogenous enough system that we ought to > be able to do it right, once, for everyone. Ryan Baumann (who posted > the howto Helmut pointed to) just updated the homebrew 'recipe' for > Tesseract, and noted that the homebrew defaults for leptonica have > changed such that 'brew install tesseract' should do the right thing > now for all people. > > If it doesn't work for someone, they should give us details of why > not, and we can fix it. This is free software, we can do better than > "providing 2 options that work some of the time" - we can just fix > bugs ourselves. > > Nick > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tesseract-ocr" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:tesseract-ocr%[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr > <http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/20150821140741.GA6744%40manta.lan > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/20150821140741.GA6744%40manta.lan>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tesseract-ocr" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr > <http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/CAORW5vhSkcP5XMOQidzaOTp3UcTKQ17jcgDj0xC%2BJ5BvNuOfEw%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/CAORW5vhSkcP5XMOQidzaOTp3UcTKQ17jcgDj0xC%2BJ5BvNuOfEw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/FBC6B96E-54F6-46A6-ABBB-B7B0C32072EB%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
