Re: frescobaldi on mac

[Robert Schmaus]

May I contribute to this thread some comments as well as a question?

Well then: I use a Mac at home, and I have been using LilyPond on the 
Mac without any problem (mac-specific ones, I mean) since v2.14. I don't 
know if I misunderstood David K.'s comment ("we have pretty few vocal 
Mac users here") but I think in most of the discussions it's rather 
unimportant which system one uses (except in cases where technical or 
installer-related problems are discussed - a clear minority). that could 
be interpreted as "lilypond runs just fine on macs" - and that would 
indeed match my experience.

another issue is frescobaldi. it runs on a Mac but is hard to install. 
over the last two year I tried several times to install it. the reason 
it didn't work was always something to do with the python installation 
or poppler or some file that was missing in the end. I'm a programmer 
myself, but I could not solve those problems for a simple reason: I knew 
that, to solve them, I would need to dig deep into the system. It'd take 
weeks to understand what's going on. That I'm a programmer doesn't imply 
that I want to do that, or indeed (as Tim pointed out) actually have the 
time to do this, and that's precisely the reason I use a non-free (or, 
to cite a rather nasty discussion from some months back, 
"freedom-denying") OS. I just don't want to bother with the system, I 
just would like a tool that works in general. I don't have to know the 
details of beer-brewing either to enjoy a bottle once in a while ...

don't misunderstand me: I'm not saying Frescobaldi is deficient in any 
way. It just doesn't target Macs, that's all. If I'd take the time to 
write such a program, I probably would not go to the trouble of writing 
a Windows installer as well.

Luckily, there are people like Philippe Massart who figure out how to 
get frescobaldi running on a Mac and don't keep it to themselves. Thank you!
With his help I'm now almost there to use frescobaldi, too, which I'm 
really looking forward to! (Up to now, I use Eclipse/Elysium which works 
fine but is rather slow.)

That brings me to my question: I've worked through Phillippe's "recipe" 
faithfully (I think). Now, when I try to launch frescobaldi on the 
Terminal, I get an error message

ImportError: No module named sip

Does anyone know what's the problem there?

Best,
Robert