Re: [Visualpython-users] gtk2-based beta version for Windows

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

Bruce Sherwood wrote:
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> It has always been the case that gtk2 was available on Mac OSX, that 
> being a Unix-based operating system, but gtk2 connected to the X11 
> windowing system, which necessitated installing X11. There is a new and 
> rather raw version of gtk2 for the Mac which connects to the native 
> Quartz windowing system, and Steve Spicklemire is trying to build 
> VPython on the Mac using this new gtk2 software. If he succeeds, 
> installation on the Mac could be vastly simpler than it now is.

While we are waiting for the aqua version of gtk2 to mature, there is 
progress on the X11 front:

In Mac OSX 10.5, X11 is installed by default. In addition, you don't 
need to set any DISPLAY environment variable any more, and you don't 
need to start X11. If you run any X11-based command like vpython from 
the Terminal.app command line, even remotely over ssh, X11 starts up 
automatically.

-- 
Martin