Status of macOS support unclear

[peterjc]

Quoting the main README,

Mac OS X

Currently no support is given for iOS. If anyone is interested in getting this to work feel free to contact me.

Apple's iOS is their phone and tablet touchscreen operating system. I assuming that was a typo?

Apple have since rebranded Mac OS X as macOS, their desktop and laptop operating system.

I expect your tool to work there much like it works on Linux, providing the dependencies can be installed - but pygments and Gtk look like the first hurdles, cross reference conda-forge/pygobject-feedstock#20

[mathijs-dumon]

Hey Peter,

That's a mistake on my part indeed.

The core of PyXRD will just work indeed - GTK is only used for the user interface, which isn't too tightly coupled (there is some coupling though).

Currently I don't have the time to maintain PyXRD properly, but I was thinking of switching out GTK with something else. I thought about using Traits from Enthought (dropping the custom mvc module entirely) or Kivy (re-implementing & expanding the mvc module to make use of Kivy).

Another option is to make a stand-alone installer (like I did for Windows) - the process used by Inkscape can probably be re-used: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/tree/master/packaging/macos

Are you interested in contributing or was your question pure informational?

[peterjc]

Curiosity only. I was asked to have a quick look at it because I use Python (but nothing graphical sadly).

It looks like installing Gtk3 is a pain :(

At least the iOS typo is an easy fix :)