Comment 5 for bug 525957

Mac OS comes with python, but it doesn't come with a C compiler. So pure-python stuff is *much* easier to deal with on a Mac. The other day I spent a couple hours trying to get the right version of the OS X developer tools installed on a machine that didn't have quite the latest Mac operating system.

So yes, there's a problem "just" installing gobject.

One of the things I like about Zim is that the storage format is reasonably simple text files that I should be able to manipulate with lots of ordinary tools. I figured I could develop my own pure-python web interface to the data. I thought zim.cgi would save me the effort, but if it depends on gobject, it doesn't quite meet my needs.