Re: pybliographer 1.2.3 success on OS X 10.3!

Hi,

> A few days ago I tried with a fresh slate and I'm happy to report
> success. But it wasn't easy: a huge number of packages needed to
> compiled from fink (the binaries are too out of date) including
> python, gnome-python, etc. Additionally the well-described recode
> patches for 3.6 are necessary.

Funny, because I worked on it yesterday evening and managed to have a
clean build. I've submitted a patched fink package and will release a
python-bibtex that will compile on OSX out of the box :-)

I've started a short document on the website:

     http://pybliographer.org/download/install-macosx

Could you review it to see if everything is ok ? The document relies
on not-yet-available versions of recode and python-bibtex
however. They should come out soon.

> One question I have is if anyone out there is working a more
> cross-platform solution that isn't so Gnome dependent (perhaps
> wxwindows or QT). Then I could have a nice native looking app
> without running an X server and compiling and installing hundreds of
> extra packages. Depending how it was done such a program could also
> be used in Windoze.

There won't be a toolkit switch for 1.2. I've more experience in
wxPython now, as I worked with it for my day job, but so far as a
developper I prefer the feel of the Gtk+ API.

In addition, on debian for instance, the default wxPython does not
support Gtk2 and Unicode, so we would just move the dependency hell to
another platform... (don't know how it is with other distributions)

The 1.3 tree contains a small embryo of UI, which could be ported to
wxWindows or another toolkit quite easily. This is certainly the good
time to start such a port as things are still simple. We might then
have more elements to decide the way to go.

Frédéric

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