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2008-10-09 , 14:28
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Originally Posted by kapresley View Post

I would like to hear a bit more about your development environment and methods (when you have time) and how you packaged it into an armel debian package. Also, since this is Python, how and where could I get information that would allow Mepheremis to run under Python on OSX on an intel macintosh system.

P.S. - Can you (and will the maemo powers allow you) to put this someplace where it will trigger the update notification icon under N800 OS2008 diablo?
kapresley:

I know absolutely nothing about Mac OSX, other than it is based on BSD (?) and is therefore theoretically more capable of easily running unix-ish stuff than WinXP is (?). Strangely, although it appears that PyGTK is 'standard' for Linux distributions, and nicely packaged for WinXP, that it is still 'in development' for OSX. Here are a few Google hits that I found:

http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_MacOS_X
http://py25-gtk.darwinports.com/
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/list...7647?page=last

I don't see a 'consistent' message here, but I suggest that you inquire within the Python and/or OSX community for more info.

As for how I packaged this, well, like the README says, PyPackager comes to the rescue when I need to do that. As for setting up the context to actually use PyPackager, well, I guess that can be a different thread

I am not sure about the 'update notification' thing, but I doubt that it would do much good for Mephemeris, since I don't see myself doing a lot more development and releases for a while