Yes.

ImageMagick is a piece of (open source) software which does all kinds of graphic manipulations on files. It's extremely useful if you have to deal with journalists uploading 20 MB images without any real sense of what they're doing!

If you don't/can't have ImageMagick on your system, you will have to resize images "manually" before the upload (sure they've got acceptable sizes for Web images - around 10-30 KB is all right, jpg with a 75% ratio will be fine).

"wvware" is a piece of software which converts Microsoft Word documents to HTML.

Why do you need it? Well, it's not actually required to make Siteseed work. It permits you to upload Word files and have Siteseed convert them directly to HTML. Also, there is a very nice utility embedded into Siteseed called "visual editor", which looks like Word, and is much easier to use when you need to do fancy formatting... if you don't have "wvware" installed, you'll have to do the formatting using HTML tags.

(the RPM package for Red Hat Linux is called wv-...-rpm, so do a

rpm --query wv

Mac OS X is nothing more than Apple's version of a FreeBSD port, running on top of a Mach microkernel ported to the PowerPC platform developed by Apple. Like FreeBSD, Darwin (the commercial name used by Apple) is an open source project.

Thus, almost anything developed for any Un*x clone will work on the Mac OS X.

Checklist

• make sure you've got Apache installed (you can get it from Apple's
  Mac OS X Website). All versions from 10.1 above should have Apache properly installed
  
  
• uncomment the following lines from "/etc/httpd/httpd.conf"
  
  LoadModule php4_module libexec/httpd/libphp4.so
  AddModule mod_php4.c
  
  
• search for the <Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents"> section. A little below should be "AllowOverride None". Change this to "AllowOverride All". This will apply only to sites created under the "primary" web server directory
  
  
• alternatively, you could change that setting on the user's configurations (stored under "/etc/httpd/users")
  
  
• re-launch Apache (either with "apachectl restart" or via System Preferences/Sharing (stop Personal Web Sharing, start Personal Web Sharing)
  
  
• make sure you have Perl installed (newer versions of Mac OS X have it installed by default). If not, you can still use Siteseed, but installation has to be "by hand". You can get Perl from Apple's Software Download page, but be warned - there could be some conflicts if you have Fink installed.
  

• go to Apple's download area and get a pre-compiled version for Mac OS X
  
• unlike previous versions, this one does all the job for you, installing itself under the common /usr/local/bin... it's currently more easy to install ImageMagick under Mac OS X than other Un*x's (both Linux and FreeBSD force you to get half of X11 to install this package!)
  
  Siteseed:
  
  
  
  • unpack the Unix version of Siteseed on your favorite directory and go ahead with install.pl...
    
  
  
  As "wvware" (Word doc to html converter), I haven't found a binary distribution yet (not even through Fink), so it seems that you really have to recompile them.
  

  
  In conclusion:
  

  
  
  • "porting" is a bad name to describe what needs to be done with Siteseed under Mac OS X - it's as easy as under Linux, Open/FreeBSD, or Solaris;
    
  • the biggest issue with Mac OS X is getting the permissions right (like under most Unixes...);
    
  • there is a GUI-based installer for Siteseed (using the standard installation procedure as any other application) but I've been lazy to keep it updated! It's far easier to download the tarball and run the Perl script...
    
  • Currently, Mr.Net's in-house development using Siteseed is done under Mac OS X :-)
    
  
  

  
  Comments on Mac OS X should go to lms@esoterica.pt