RedNotebook

Is there a native Mac OSX version?

Asked by Stephen Gibson

The Mac OSX version of rednotebook appears to be just the windows .exe running under wine. It runs, but the fonts are lousy compared with the rednotebook that I run on Ubuntu. Is there a native OSX version of rednotebook?

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Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp) said : 		#1

At the moment there is no native version unfortunately.

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Stephen Gibson (stephen-gibson) said : 		#2

Is there a reason why the rednotebook Python code will not run on a Mac?

(Sorry, I don't have my Mac available at the moment to test.)

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Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp) said : 		#3

Well, there are instructions on the rednotebook download page telling
you how to install it manually. I don't know if this has an influence on
the fonts though.

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Stephen Gibson (stephen-gibson) said : 		#4

Thanks, for your fast response.

 Unless I misread the instructions, they state to install wine, and download the rednotebook windows .exe. This runs fine, but is less than ideal, since the application looks like an old win3.11 application.

Since, rednotebook is written in Python, shouldn't it just run on Mac OSX as a Python application?

I will try tonight (8 hours time) and report back.

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Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp) said : 		#5

This might help:
http://jamesthedisciple.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/rednotebook-on-osx-how-to/

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Ron (ronogara) said : 		#6

Stephen, were you able to build rednotebook from source on OS X?

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Stephen Gibson (stephen-gibson) said : 		#7

No, from memory there were gl(? window library) issues that I could not resolve. The downloaded python library would not install. I gave up ...

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