Brew install

[jburel]

Few adjustments to the doc after a fresh install on 10.8

[hflynn]

The actual content looks fine but I wonder about the formatting - this subsection now consists almost entirely of note boxes which makes it difficult to parse. Maybe you could replace the two notes with two bullet point sections?

[jburel]

@hflynn: good point.

[jburel]

@hflynn:

• Moved the comment about ice34 installation to another section.
• Removed the notes.
• Added line to edit variable in .profile

[hflynn]

Good to merge now.

[sbesson]

A quick comment, it may be easier to document the following signatures to install OMERO with Ice 3.4

brew install omero --with-ice34

and to install the dependencies

brew install `brew deps omero --with-ice34` 

Although the latter is untested (i.e. assuming the options are properly propagated with brew deps)

[bpindelski]

I've tested the install docs from this PR and they make sense. Installed Ice 3.4 through homebrew with the caveat that I wasn't able to install when a virtualenv was active. python_deps.sh worked ok inside a virtualenv. I skipped the Postgres homebrew installation - I found the .dmg file supplied by PostgreSQL more user-friendly and quicker to install.

[sbesson]

Thanks Blazej, regarding your comment, Homebrew does not work with virtualenv at installation time. Is it worth adding a line about this on this page with a link to the relevant documentation section
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Homebrew-and-Python#virtualenv ?

[bpindelski]

@sbesson If it won't add noise in the documentation, then I don't see why not. It's quite relevant when doing brew install zeroc-ice34. In general I ended up using the OS X Python, on top of which I added pip (sudo easy_install pip) and finally did sudo pip install virtualenv and sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper. Then all the Omero deps I placed in the virtualenv. Seems to work fine for me. I agree that it would be nicer if we could just use a centralised Python (e.g. only homebrew Python), but that doesn't seem like a stable solution.

[sbesson]

@bpindelski: makes sense. This discussion is no blocker for this PR. Do you want to open a ticket to review the Python part of the installation and assign me as the owner?

[bpindelski]

@sbesson https://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/ticket/11361. Thanks.

[joshmoore]

Any final comments?

[sbesson]

Merge :)

[jburel]

--rebased-to #439