From 7ab6b0963321fea01ce09e1daef26723044254b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Tismer Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 01:10:20 +0200 Subject: introduction text for Max OS X and Homebrew Change-Id: Ifd8e6bbef0e6a0054306e30803b99da46847688f --- README.rst | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) (limited to 'README.rst') diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 7ab9e5f0b..f8607d4d6 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -245,6 +245,34 @@ Windows: Installing PySide distribution into ``virtual`` Python environment Building PySide on a Mac OS X System ==================================== +Mac OS X is a Unix flavor, partially based upon +`BSD Unix `_. + +The supported Mac OS X versions created by `Apple `_ are + +- OS X 10.6 *Snow Leopard* +- OS X 10.7 *Lion* +- OS X 10.8 *Mountain Lion* +- OS X 10.9 *Mavericks* + +Mac OS X is a proprietary UNIX flavor of BSD Unix and only partially similar to +Linux. Therefore, the usual packages from Linux distributions cannot be used +without modifications. + +There are several known package managers which provide support for Mac OS X, namely + +- `MacPorts `_ +- `Fink `_ +- `Homebrew `_ + +The main purpose of all of these projects is to provide the missing Linux packages +for Mac OS X. + +Throughout this tutorial, we are only using `Homebrew `_, because +it appears to be the most light-weight package manager available. + +But it should be easy to translate these instructions for the other, heavier package managers. + Mac OS X: Installing prerequisites ---------------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3