On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Berend Hasselman wrote: > On 06-02-2012, at 13:36, Data Analytics Corp. wrote: >> >> I teach a course in econometrics in which the students are required to >> use Gretl. I've been using Gretl for several years with no problems. >> But this semester, several students have complained that Gretl would >> either crash when they used the script editor or it wouldn't load. >> These students are using a MacBook Pro, at least one of which is a new >> computer. For the crashing, they said that they just typed the letter g >> (when trying to enter the command genr) and Gretl immediately closed; >> the menu option to create a variable worked fine. For the loading >> issue, some found that only a terminal program loaded; they were unable >> to load Gretl that looked like the Gretl demoed in class. >> >> Are there any issues with Gretl for MacBook Pros I should know about? > > Not that I know of. > > Which version of Mac OS X are the students using? > > Have they installed the GTK_ framwork from Gretl's site? > As mentioned in Step 2 on the Gretl mac OS X page. > >> The downloads were for the newest version. > > The newest version refers to Gretl?
I've heard of other people having trouble with gretl on current OS X lately. So far as I can tell this is mostly due to not reading the installation instructions, but the instructions may be unnecessarily confusing due to the Intel/PPC business. To try to head off confusion I've now split the "gretl on OS X" page, with a sub-page for each architecture. Comments welcome. While on this subject -- any ideas on how long we need to maintain PPC Mac support? Is it already redundant? Allin Cottrell
