Thanks to a workmate, Jean-Philippe, who shared me a little space of it's Osx Leopard based laptop, i could test minitage on Leopard.

I was surprised to not see a lot of breakages. Most of the packages build fine right now.

I was just anooyed with 'MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET' bugs i introduced with previous minitage versions, where i didnt know already all the impact of using it.

So, now, is minitage ready for mac ?

I think, Yes as almost everything inside minitage can install without problems. But ..., it needs to be tested a lot more :)

And think, that you must run OSX Leopard. Prior versions of MacOSX wont be supported. Indeed, i need some linker features which need a lot of rewrites of minitage composants  to be compliant with the old mac linker. (-Wl,-rpath -Wl,... -> -rpath something). Whereas, now, a lot can be fixed in one place, the project has history and there is a lot of places to fix and test to rewrite this "flag issue". But if you want, port it ;)

One recommandation if you use minitage on OSX is to use the boostrapper to get the base python compiled with the right options.

If you get some obscure  errors like:

distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET mismatch: now "10.3" but "10.5" during configure

use the bootstrapper ;)

 You ll need also xcode and some tools installed, see on the minitage installation documentation : http://minitage.org/installation.html