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[Yin Wang <address@hidden>]

It was compiling many many other things ranging from m4 to bzip ... I
wonder if there is something wrong with the dependencies, because I
just asked to install ghostscript.

It is better to give the message that "gs is missing" when the user
tries to convert to PDF and tell them what to do (download it or use
ps2pdf). A message when the program starts can be annoying because the
user may not want to use the PDF functionality at all.


-- Yin


On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:23 PM, François-Xavier Thomas
<address@hidden> wrote:
> My GS directory takes ~40M. Maybe there are some compilation artifacts that 
> won't be there after you finish the installation?
>
> Anyway, there really should be a warning about missing dependencies when 
> you start TeXmacs. It really is a bad user experience to have to go all the 
> way to the mailing lists to discover that, oh, yeah, by the way, you need 
> GhostScript...
>
> On Oct 25, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Yin Wang wrote:
>
>> Wow I downloaded macports and typed
>>
>>> sudo port install ghostscript
>>
>> It started to compile everything and so far /opt took over 500MB disk 
>> space...
>>
>>
>> -- yin
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Miguel de Benito Delgado
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Yin Wang <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Does TeXmacs rely on ghostscript?
>>>
>>> For conversion to pdf it does until someone has the will and time to
>>> finish the native pdf renderer.
>>>
>>>> I don't have gs on my mac and I
>>>> haven't found a easy way to install it. The GS website doesn't provide
>>>> a mac os package.
>>>
>>> Yep, that sucks. I think the easiest and cleanest way is to use
>>> macports. Install it, then type in a terminal
>>>
>>> sudo port install ghostscript
>>>
>>> You'll have gs installed in /opt/local/bin (might need to add that to
>>> your path, I don't remember if macports does that by default)
>>>
>>>> Can I do without GS?
>>>
>>> If you use ps2pdf, yes, but some other features (related to image
>>> support) also use gs, so you are better off simply installing
>>> macports. It's really easy and uninstalling is completely clean.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> ________________
>>> Miguel de  Benito.
>