added explaination of Mac woes

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@@ -82,6 +82,20 @@ Creating a Mac install is something we're still working towards.
 For the technically inclined we're working towards using PyXPCOM

 to replace the Nevow library which should simplify a Mac version.

 

+We have had earlier versions of eXe running on Mac, but we've run into

+multiple problems with later releases.  I'm not sure if you're

+interested in the details, but they were...

+ * Nevow the XMLHTTP library we use gives connection errors just on

+   Mac, even though it is supposed to support Mac.  We're looking

+   at replacing XMLHTTP/Nevow with PyXPCOM.

+ * Mac applications only have one menu bar, we need to replace the 

+   Firefox menubar, but when doing that (by turning off Firefox

+   chrome) we get another error with FCKEditor (the rich text

+   editor we're using) flickering.  We're investigating possibly

+   replacing    FCKEditor by using Mozilla's "native" Midas editing 

+   interface.

+ * We also have more work to do on how to create a install package for

+   eXe on the Mac.  We're aiming to use PyApp for this.

 

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