The firstrun wizard breaks on OS X

[Yashka Oreza]

One of the objects created by the first run wizard checks whether the hellanzb daemon is running - it does this by using the /proc filesystem - which doesn't exist on OS X - causing it to choke.

in utils.py, the objects Process and ProcessList use the /proc filesysem

If I comment out these in firstrun.py to get past the firstrun wizard, it works really well as a remote frontend for my linux nzb server.

[Sander Tuit (avirulence)]

Hi Yashka,

Thanks for reporting this! It would be good to have OS X support, we've been planning this for a while. However, none of us have an OS X system to test on. I couldn't use it in a virtual machine either.

Would you mind helping us with squasing the OS X bugs?

[Andrew Williams (nikdoof)]

This is not just a OSX thing, as it would affect anyone running Darwin and some BSD distributions. We need some simple platform detection within the first-start and hella process management.

Yashka, are you using the GTK/PyGTK packages from DarwinPorts or another source?

[Yashka Oreza (yashka)]

I'd be happy to help - I'm using the Imendio build system for GTK+ quartz/PyGTK

Unfortunately, there aren't packages yet and this is pretty annoying to build. Also, python applications aren't yet packagable so I'm running it from the terminal.

[Severin H (severinh)]

We finally got rid of the whole Process and ProcessList stuff in revision http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lottanzb/lottanzb/main/revision/312 . So the next version of LottaNZB will probably run out of the box on Mac OS X.

[Severin H (severinh)]

LottaNZB 0.3 is out now. The code responsible for breaking LottaNZB on OS X has gone. Wonder if the newest version does better.

[Yashka Oreza (yashka)]

I just upgraded to 0.3 - confirmed that Lotta now works on OS X (as a remote frontend) with no problems at all!

Now all we need are a GTK/Quartz and pyGTK that we don't have to compile ourselves first! But that is most certainly not your problem :)

[Severin H (severinh)]

Hi Yashka Oreza,

this is great news! Would you mind writing a short guide on how to get LottaNZB working on OS X once there are proper GTK/Quartz and pyGTK packages for OS X? I guess it's requires quite a lot of work right now. And would it possible to run HellaNZB on OS X? It doesn't have many dependencies.

I'd really like to see a screenshot of LottaNZB running on OS X! :-D

[Yashka Oreza (yashka)]

Actually, I didn't even install it. I just ran 'python lottanzb.py' and it worked this time.
OS X is one of Hella's officially supported platforms, so there's no problem there.

Here's your screenshot!