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

[Ronald Oussoren]

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.

Ronald