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[Jeffrey Liu <jliu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI - running from the source worked.
(python zim.py)



On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Jeffrey Liu<jliu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I ran from the zim install (after python setup.py install).
> I tried setting the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable and re-running,
> but I'm still getting the same error.  (With the gtk-osx build from
> source, the zim.png and other files are located at
> ~/gtk/inst/share/zim)
>
>
>  ls gtk/inst/share/zim
> applications            globe_banner_small.png  pixmaps
>  templates
> globe.svg               manual                  preferences.conf        zim.png
> globe_banner.svg        menubar.xml             style.conf              zim.svg
>
>
> There are wiki pages at gtk-osx talking about how to package your
> program for Mac OS X, and I can give that a try.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Jaap
> Karssenberg<jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ... forgot to CC the mailing list
>>
>> Jeffrey Liu wrote:
>>>
>>> However, I ran into two things when running pyzim.
>>> 1.  The version check fails even though I'm running python 2.5.2.
>>>
>>
>> Oops, typo on my side - code 2.6 in that version check instead of 2.5 as
>> intended.
>>
>>> 2.  After removing the version check, pyzim would attempt to run, but
>>> I see the following error:
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>  File "/Users/jliu/gtk/inst/bin/zim-test", line 8, in <module>
>>>    zim.main(sys.argv)
>>>  File "/Users/jliu/gtk/inst/lib/python2.5/site-packages/zim/__init__.py",
>>> line 192, in main
>>>    handler = zim.gui.GtkInterface(*args, **optsdict)
>>>  File
>>> "/Users/jliu/gtk/inst/lib/python2.5/site-packages/zim/gui/__init__.py",
>>> line 189, in __init__
>>>    icon = data_file('zim.png').path
>>> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'path'
>>>
>>
>> This means it can not find the data files.  Will add a check for that.
>> Are you running from the source directory or did you install already?
>> In this later case you need to check where the data files were installed
>> (e.g. /usr/local/share/zim) and set the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment
>> variable to point to that location.
>>
>>> Sorry, I wish I knew more python to help debug these two issues.
>>>
>>
>> No problem. I'm really interested to hear your results trying to run on OS
>> X. Ideally would like to have some procedure how to compile a binary package
>> for OS X.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Jaap
>>
>>
>>
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