Re: gnumeric natively on Mac OSX

[Morten Welinder <mortenw gnome org>]

There isn't anything that I recognize as a show stopper on that
list.  You can look around and see where we do special things
for Win32, keeping in mind that Win32 is much further away
from Linux than OSX is.   It's really not a lot of places.

There might be issues with case sensitivity of file names, but I
think we got away with largely ignoring the issue for Win32.

There might be issues with cut-and-paste, but the basics should
work with no effort.  We mostly paste text (including xml) and
images.

Morten





On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Frédéric Parrenin
<parrenin ujf-grenoble fr> wrote:
> Actually the Mac OSX page of gtk+ is here:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/GTK+/OSX?action=show&redirect=GTK%2B%2FOSX
> There is a list of features which don't work well.
> It would be interesting to know what could impact gnumeric in this list,
> before actually trying to do the port.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Frédéric
>
>
>
> 2014-12-13 1:24 GMT+01:00 Morten Welinder <mortenw gnome org>:
> > I think the basic principle is that you find a gtk3+ application
> > that compiles and run in the environment you want.
> >
> > Once you have that going, Gnumeric isn't too hard: it's
> > basically just the libgsf, goffice, and gnumeric modules
> > on top of gtk+.
> >
> > Morten
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Frédéric Parrenin
> > <parrenin ujf-grenoble fr> wrote:
> > > Actually I am realizing that the gimp version running on OSX is based on
> > > gtk2 so it might not be so easy with gnumeric-1.12 and gtk3.
> > >
> > > Anyway, meanwhile, it would be good to list on gnumeric's website the
> > > 'not
> > > so easy' ways to install gnumeric on osx via fink, macports or homebrew.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Frédéric
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 2014-12-12 23:36 GMT+01:00 Frédéric Parrenin <parrenin ujf-grenoble fr>:
> > > > Dear all,
> > > >
> > > > Gnumeric is now a great tool for science, with efficient and accurate
> > > > sheet calculations and capable graphing capabilities.
> > > > As a scientist, I would like very much to see it running natively on
> > > > Mac
> > > > OSX.
> > > > Many scientists are now using OSX and if gnumeric was easy to install
> > > > and
> > > > run on those systems, I am sure it would have a large success.
> > > >
> > > > Other gtk+ applications, like gimp, have been ported to run natively on
> > > > OSX so if I understand correctly, there is no big obstacle to do the
> > > > same
> > > > for gnumeric.
> > > >
> > > > What could be our strategy for this port to occur?
> > > > Should we contact gtk-osx experts and ask them?
> > > >
> > > > On my side, I don't have enough skills/time to do it by myself but I
> > > > might
> > > > be able to provide a new mac computer for somebody wanting to tackle
> > > > this
> > > > issue. Please contact me in this case.
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > >
> > > > Frédéric
> > >
> > >
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