Re: Hello and suggestions

["Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <jzb zonker net>]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Marc Hanisch <dubst3pp4 googlemail com> wrote:
> I think it should be easy to provide a common Gnome environment for OS X
> with a underlying Fink or MacPorts installation. So the non technical
> enduser wouldn't notice all the powerfull unix tools behind but could use
> it.

Perhaps I'm not very well-versed with Fink/MacPorts, but don't these
require a bit of command-line fu to get something up and running?

IIRC, using MacPorts or Fink requires the user to:

* Install Apple's dev tools so they have access to X11 and compilers, etc.
* Install Fink/MacPorts
* Then run things like "port install xxx" and so forth to get packages.

Not trying to dissuade you at all from promoting GNOME tools on Mac OS
X, but I'm not sure that those build steps are going to work well for
"non-technical" users.

We should *absolutely* be promoting GNOME packages that have native OS
X installers. And we should have information about compiling GNOME
packages for OS X for users who can be interested in digging a bit
deeper, but I'd call those "pre-technical" users. :-)

Best,

Zonker

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