[texworks] Beginners' needs (was: Lua scripting)

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 17 juin 09 à 02:13, David J. Perry a écrit :

> 3. In fact, I think TeXworks works so well that I'd like to see the  
> official version 1 sooner rather than later.  This would let more  
> people try it. (BTW: thanks to Alain for those Windows binaries.  I  
> do a lot of computer related stuff, but have no interest in  
> buildling software!)

An updated Mac OS X binary would be nice, too. It's understandable  
Jonathan is very busy, but it's a bit frustrating to see many updates  
mentioned on this list and not being able to test them.

The general instructions mention the required elements (Qt, Poppler,  
Hunspell):

	http://code.google.com/p/texworks/

but not how the actual building procedure. There are more detailed  
instructions in a post:

	http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/detail?id=107

but these don't seem straightforward to follow:

	http://code.google.com/p/texworks/wiki/Building

(see microlatex's post from 31 May at end of page).

It's possible to deal with some dependencies (libjpeg, fontconfig) by  
installing them with i-Installer, but i-Installer has had active  
development stopped a couple of years ago, so it's uncertain whether  
using it wouldn't create version mismatches.

Also, I'm a bit worried that installing hunspell could break aspell  
which I'm using through the nice CocoAspell GUI.

Finally, I'm wondering whether this procedure would install things the  
Unix way (in /usr/local etc.) instead of packaging as much libraries  
as possible the Mac way, namely as frameworks to be put in /Library/ 
Frameworks, which is what Jonathan is providing for now.

Bruno Voisin