Hi,
Thanks for your work. I'm not a Mac user myself but I think that this
way of packaging applications can be of great help for a lot of users.
What do you think about transforming this bundle to klik
(klik.berlios.de) or zero install (0install.net)?. Your experience could
be valuable in guiding another people interested in this kind of
alternative packaging for Linux.
Cheers,
Offray
Ingolf Schäfer wrote:
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I have made a first application bundle just for testing. You can
download it here:
http://www.math.uni-bremen.de/~ovidius/texmacs.dmg.zip
The Xcode project files for the starter can be obtained here (for
XCode 2.2):
http://www.math.uni-bremen.de/~ovidius/texmacsstarter-src.zip
You can install it by copying TeXmacsStarter.app anywhere you like.
If you put it into the Applications folder, you should see, that all
.tm files have icons now. Double-clicking a .tm file should launch
X11.app and TeXmacs. The bundle itself contains a starter and binary
versions of readline, guile and TeXmacs. A log file is written to
~/TeXmacs/run.log, which contains to output of TeXmacs.
At the momentary state, there are some drawbacks:
- Due to laziness this version is for Mac OS X 10.4 aka Tiger only.
This can and should be fixed.
- Although the starter itself is a universal binary, I did not manage
to make one out of all the applications. Namely guile resists. The
good news is, that cross compiling TeXmacs is no problem :-)
- Launching the starter only without dropping some file, will not
open TeXmacs. This will change, but for the moment I am happy with it.
- I have not applied the patches of fink for TeXmacs.
- TeXmacsStarter.app does not look for ghostscript. I am not sure, if
we should include ghostscript or set some PATH variable.
First, I would like to have a spotlight plugin, to get metadata out
of .tm files, for optimized searching. If I find time enough over the
holidays, I will do this myself.
Sure, that would be nice. More generally, I am searching for someone
who would like to work on some kind of searchable "TeXmacs file system"
(independently from Mac users). But this is of course a much larger
project,
with one nice feature that it can be developed in a quite
independent way
from TeXmacs (and might be useful to other projects).
I am sorry, but I do not understand, what a searchable "TeXmacs file
system" should be.
Second, the place of the user files in ~/.TeXmacs is rather
"unmacish". I would prefer that they are by default in ~/Library/
TeXmacs, because this is the standard location or user files and
moreover you can view this folder directly in the Finder.app.
One might add some #ifdef's to the source code to change the default
path for TEXMACS_HOME_PATH.
I could do this, but I just wanted to know if this is acceptable.
Yours,
Ingolf
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