help with sugar (non jhbuild) on osx

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 21:17 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 10:39 -0800, Dan Aronson wrote:
> > Can anyone supply some simple instructions for downloading and running
> > sugar not using jhbuild on osx.  I have some slightly different versions
> > of some of the dependencies and rather than install everything, I would
> > like to just try installing sugar solo and seeing if I can tweak it
> > enough (if necessary) to work.
> 
> It may not work so well on OS X unless you've got dbus working there
> too, which to my knowledge doesn't run on OS X yet.

D-Bus should run on OSX fine.  We just have no way of starting a session
bus with your session but you can start sugar with a session bus.

>   You'll need Avahi
> too, rather than Apple's mDNSResponder and friends.  In short, you're
> going to spend quite a bit of time trying to port stuff to OS X rather
> than making sugar actually work, I think.

Even running sugar outside of a jhbuild root or virtual machine in Linux
is hard work.  On OSX the best ways to work is through jhbuild or
vitalization software such as qemu, VirtualPC or Parallels.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>