Disappointment in HippoDraw
OK, clearly I spent a lot of time trying to get HippoDraw working on my Powerbook. It wasn't obvious nor easy, but there was a certain satisfaction up to the point of hacking at the Python includes. Yet when I get it all complied - and it did all compile, it didn't run for spit. Now I don't think of myself as a pig, or extremist, but when I spend a lot of time building something that's supposed to work - and has been working for a long, long, time, I get a little disappointed.
I'm sorry... I can't believe that they guys that say they got this working on Mac OS X really have. At least not with the versions of the libraries that I have. Of course, the mailing list is down, so I can't find anything about what I might do differently to get this darn thing to work.
So, I trash it. Bummer, but Qt is running fine so it's not that, and the Boost and Python seem to be OK but with no Python experience I'm really not able to debug what's going on there. It's a bummer that Apple broke the NXHost-ing as well otherwise I'd use the NeXTSTEP box for HippoDraw - the one that works!
Well... maybe in a few versions I'll try it again.