Re: [Visualpython-users] building failure from visual-5.2_release.tar.bz2 on Mac OS X10.6.4

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

Steve Spicklemire wrote:
> Hi K,
> 
> I'm pretty sure the gtk/glade etc are only needed for an X-Windows  
> build. The Mac port uses the Carbon API to run on macos x.
> 
> It may be possible to build an X-Windows version (in fact that was  
> originally how visual was ported to the mac, except using fink rather  
> than macports) but it hasn't been done in some time (I don't think at  
> all for Visual 5.X, as far as I know, but I may be wrong here..)

You are wrong:
Fink has version 5.32 (package "visual-py26"), which uses X11.

-- 
Martin