[Idle-dev] Request for review: IDLE L&F on OSX

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 5-jun-2006, at 23:16, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> On 6/5/06, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 5-jun-2006, at 22:09, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>
>> > On 6/5/06, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
>> >> That's expected behaviour due to the way OSX works. There's a
>> >> Makefile for building an application bundle (IDLE.app) in Mac/OSX/
>> >> IDLE. The easiest way to get the application bundle is to  
>> install a
>> >> framework build, that will install IDLE.app in /Application/ 
>> MacPython
>> >> 2.5.
>> >
>> > Can you give me quick instructions on how to do this? You should
>> > assume I've never used OSX before (I'm a Linux weenie with a  
>> PowerBook
>> > laptop).
>>
>> That should be easy :-). With the current trunk you just have to add
>> '--enable-framework' to the command-line for configure. The usual
>> 'make; sudo make install' then installs the framework and  
>> applications.
>
> I think you meant "frameworkinstall". It now seems to work -- except
> the things I mentioned before (which don't seem to be new?).

With the trunk make install should also work, I'll check if that's  
still true. I've changed this a while back because of yet another  
user that did "make install" and was surprised things didn't work.

Ronald