Make OS X installation simpler about mopidy HOT 7 CLOSED

Someone else has created new formulas for pycairo/pygobject/pygtk and just submitted them to Homebrew. If they are merged into mxcl/homebrew, we only need to get gst-python in to make Mopidy installation simpler on OS X.

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https://github.com/jodal/homebrew/compare/master...gst-python contains my latest version of gst-python with dependencies. It combines the efforts by afb, as linked to in the previous comment, and my earlier efforts.

It does not rely on PYTHONPATH magic, which I believe the Homebrew maintainers do not like, but instead print caveat messages with the PYTHONPATH adjustments you need to do to use pygtk and gst-python.

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Looking forward to this.

Seems the homebrew issue has been closed, though?
Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#1612

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Yeah, they seem unwilling to package Python stuff, even though this particular Python stuff use autotools, etc. to build, thus you can forget to install it using pip, and need to use something like Homebrew or do it manually. At least the rest of GStreamer got in, so there is less to build manually.

Other than that, this issue isn't highly prioritized, as I can't get GStreamer to work properly on OS X anyway. See issue #25 for details on that.

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Could you write a formula for mopidy that installs all of it's dependencies instead? I super want mopidy on OS X.

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Issue #25 have been resolved and Mopidy now works on OS X.

Installation on OS X is still far from perfect, and I've given up on getting the Homebrew guys to include Python specific formulas a long time ago. Since I can't immediately make the installation simpler, I've opted for documenting the current installation process better:

• The requirements listing at http://readthedocs.org/docs/mopidy/en/latest/installation/ is now a lot simpler.
• The libspotify/pyspotify instructions at http://readthedocs.org/docs/mopidy/en/latest/installation/libspotify/ now has dedicated sections for OS X.
• The GStreamer installation is completely documented with all required steps at http://readthedocs.org/docs/mopidy/en/latest/installation/gstreamer/

I'll leave this issue open until I either get feedback on how this is working out for you, or I get around to test the instructions on a clean OS X machine myself.

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I originally got Mopidy working on a non-clean OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8) computer. Now I've verified (and updated) the OS X installation instructions using a clean OS X Lion (10.7.2) computer.

I've had no issues other than the random Homebrew compilation error due to random updates of the large amount of dependencies needed to go from a clean system to a fully functional GStreamer installation.

Closing this issue, as I don't see anything we can immediately improve without getting our Python formulas into Homebrew, which doesn't seem very likely.

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