Renewing OSX Distribution (was Re: [ptx] Hugin 0.6 on OS X Crashing)

[Mr. Roger Howard]

On Aug 9, 2006, at 9:11 AM, David Haberthür wrote:

>
> On 09.08.2006, at 00:37, Ippei UKAI wrote:
>
>> Can I try summarising a bit about the installation issues on OSX?
> [snip]
>>
>> Autopano-sift
>> More people feel autopano-sift optional compared to enblend, and I  
>> think it can be rather dealt as a plugin rather than an integral  
>> component. It also has stability issues with shell scripts. So it  
>> should be dealt on a different thread.
>
> I heavily rely on autopano-sift for creation of my panoramas (and  
> thus cannot wait for hugin 0.6.1 :-) ). for me it produces good  
> results which i can then refine really fast by hand.
> i think because it requires mono there is no easy solution to the  
> DnD-problem here.
> or is there a possibility to warn/alert the enduser that "hugin"  
> requires mono to fully work (with all the plugins) out of the box?
>
>>
>> Suggested change to hugin itself
>>
>> In the preference, the paths to enblend and autopano should be the  
>> choice between "Search Default Locations" and "Specify custom  
>> path". On Linux, "default search locatins" would be the bin search  
>> paths, and on Mac, would be "Application Support" folders of user  
>> and system levels, and inside the .app application bundle.
>
> sounds good to me!

Why not search default bin paths on OSX too (either by using common  
defaults, or reading in defaults from the shell env variables)?

-R