{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/quodlibet/quodlibet/issues/1648","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/quodlibet/quodlibet/issues/1648/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/quodlibet/quodlibet/issues/1648/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/quodlibet/quodlibet/issues/1648/events","html_url":"https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/issues/1648","id":94428133,"number":1648,"title":"documentation for OS X build process?","user":{"login":"glyph","id":716529,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/716529?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/glyph","html_url":"https://github.com/glyph","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/glyph/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/glyph/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/glyph/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/glyph/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/glyph/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/glyph/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/glyph/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/glyph/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/glyph/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/quodlibet/quodlibet/labels/enhancement","name":"enhancement","color":"207de5"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/quodlibet/quodlibet/labels/osx","name":"osx","color":"d4c5f9"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-07-11T02:45:06Z","updated_at":"2015-07-11T06:41:07Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I downloaded quod libet's code, but it's not clear to me how to transform it into a working Mac application so that I can work on it on my local machine and make contributions.  I'm hoping this ticket will just be closed by saying that I didn't read something, but `setup.py build` just produces a bunch of errors."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/quodlibet/quodlibet/issues/comments/120587378","html_url":"https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/issues/1648#issuecomment-120587378","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/quodlibet/quodlibet/issues/1648","id":120587378,"user":{"login":"lazka","id":991986,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/991986?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/lazka","html_url":"https://github.com/lazka","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lazka/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lazka/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lazka/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lazka/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lazka/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lazka/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lazka/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lazka/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/lazka/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-07-11T06:41:07Z","updated_at":"2015-07-11T06:41:07Z","body":"1) I'm currently working on improving this.\r\n\r\n2) It is currently possible to run everything without installing/compiling by \r\ndoing the following (this doesn't make it easy to add new dependencies, but \r\nthat's rarely needed)\r\n\r\n  * Download/Extract Quodlibet-3.4.0_1.zip\r\n  * git clone quodlibet..\r\n  * Copy Quodlibet.app/Contents/MacOS/QuodLibet to e.g. Quodlibet.app/Contents/MacOS/Run\r\n  * In the last line of Run, replace with ```$EXEC \"$PYTHON\" $*```\r\n  * ./Quodlibet.app/Contents/MacOS/Run <path_to_git_clone>/quodlibet/quodlibet.py\r\n  * ```setup.py test``` fails that way afair due to CWD changes in the launcher script, I still need to look into that."}}