Re: Help needed creating a Mac OS X installer for Frescobaldi

[Rodolfo Zitellini]

I can give this a try. I tried using py2app on frescobaldi but it had
some issues and I didn't have time to sort them out.

Rodolfo

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Wilbert Berendsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Unfortunately I don't have access to a Mac. But it would be very nice
> if someone is able to create an installer for the Macintosh (by
> creating/adapting a 'freeze.py'-like script) for Frescobaldi.
>
> This means that an Application Bundle would be created, containing
> PyQt4, Python, portmidi and python-poppler-qt4. The cx_Freeze python
> module (also used by the freeze.py script that creates a Windows
> installer) is able to handle that.
>
> Here[1] is an example of a Python script that freezes an application
> comparable to Frescobaldi (in that it also uses PyQt4), with support
> for creating a Mac DMG file containing all the needed libraries.
>
> [1] http://code.google.com/p/iep/source/browse/freezeScript.py
>
> Is anyone here able to understand the application bundle part of this
> and to create a freeze_macox.py script for Frescobaldi, based on the
> exising freeze.py[2] and the other example?
>
> [2] https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/blob/master/freeze.py
>
> Otherwise I would need to setup a donation infracture just to get a Mac
> for building the installer :-) (although it would also help furthering
> development and testing of Frescobaldi in general on Mac OS X :-)
>
> --
> Wilbert Berendsen
> (http://www.wilbertberendsen.nl)
>
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