[Qgis-user] Mac OS X, Sextante and other plugins or the forgotten users..

[gene]

Hello,
I am a user of QGIS (and GRASS GIS and gvSIG, and...) on Mac OS X and not a
C, C + + or Java developer : I use Python in all developments and I'm happy
because I can do anything in the Python consoles of the softwares. I am also
a member of OSGeo-Fr.

I simply note that there are more and more people using these software on
Mac OS X but everything is done for Linux and Windows, without even mention
Mac OS X as if it did not exist for the developers.

Only one person, William Kyngesburye (thank to him who saves us) provides
all these softwares for the Mac Users (and also C. Barton for GRASS GIS) and
the port of GvSIG is still "experimental"...
*SEXTANTE plugin for QGIS is not made for Mac, only for Windows and Linux*.
There is no SAGA for Mac, for example, and I can install SEXTANTE but the
SAGA algorithms does not work (even the R algorithms does not work while I
can use R in GRASS GIS or QGIS without problems). 
Yet the new *gvSIG Community Edition* has an extension SEXTANTE with SAGA
modules that work on Mac.

So what is the role of Mac OS X users (not developers) if developers use
Linux and the majority of users are using Windows or Linux ?  Tell the
students or beginners , change of OS ?

I do not want to offend anyone but most users are not developers and the
only thing they want is to use the program. *In the case of QGIS for Mac,
all works well (thanks William) but there are problems with some plugins* I
always try to transmit the bugs encountered to William Kyngesburye but I
understand  he can not solve everything alone, especially if it's problems
with plugins. As I know Python, I can solve some but not all.
I also understand that most developers are on Linux but Mac OS X is also a
Unix (FreeBSD based), unlike Windows.

So, what can we do to help if we are not programmers ?



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