[Maf] 0.6.2 Release - MacOS X Support

[Marco De Vitis]

Il giorno 03/ago/05, alle ore 01:36, Christopher Ottley ha scritto:

> Marco De Vitis wrote:
>
>> Is MacOSX not supported at all
>
> Sorry, no, not supported. With a native Zip Writer XPCOM component,  
> the library needs to be compiled specifically for the platform. As  
> I don't have a Mac or easy access to one for development and  
> testing, I can't compile the code to make a Mac version. Although I  
> have a job now and I would like to support the Mac, I can't justify  
> buying a Mac for MAF development alone (especially as I've gotten a  
> grand total of US$15 donated thus far for my work on MAF.

What should be needed to compile the code? Do you expect it to need  
modifications before compiling on Mac can succeed?
I could try for you if you like; the problem is that I only have a  
vague idea of what XPCOM is. :-/

I can understand your concerns. The general idea people have about  
extensions is that they should be free, so I suppose it will still  
take some time before some money can be earned with a Firefox extension.
On my side, I would not pay for MAF simply because I actually never  
used it, yet. I have both PC and Mac, so in the rare cases when I  
needed to save or open an MHT file I had IE at hand; and having a  
fast and flat rate connection I rarely need to save stuff for offline  
usage. But I installed MAF (some time ago) out of curiosity, mostly  
because I thought it could be the only way to handle MHT files (which  
can be useful soon or later) on systems different from Windows.  
Indeed, I've seen some Mac users asking on some newsgroups how could  
they open MHT files, and unfortunately the old MAF versions had  
problems on MacOS, even with files created by MAF itself.

So, I'd be glad to help in building MAF on OSX, unless trying it  
reveals to be too much trouble on your side or mine.

-- 
Ciao,
   Marco.