+1. What’s the old saying about perfection being the enemy of good enough?
Sent by Magic! > On Dec 14, 2022, at 5:34 AM, Mike Cowlishaw <m...@speleotrove.com> wrote: > > I fear that if we just keep discussing things that need to be done another > 10 years will pass. > > Surely the priority here is to get 5.0 out there for most platforms, and > worry about loose ends afterwards? > > Mike > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rony G. Flatscher [mailto:rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at] >> Sent: 14 December 2022 13:24 >> To: oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] Wrong Apple version of ooRexx >> serviced by the Sourceforge website >> >> On 13.12.2022 16:59, P.O. Jonsson wrote: >>>> This was my point: currently all Apple users get outdated not >>>> workable ooRexx by the official ooRexx site. ALLl official >> versions >>>> of ooRexx for macOS are broken and do not install, not the >> 32 bit and >>>> not the 64 bit version of ooRexx 4. We do not currently have ANY >>>> official version of ooRexx that install with ANY Mac (Intel or >>>> M1/ARM) running OS X El Capitan (2015) (OS X 10.11) or newer. This >>>> problem is 7 years old :-( >>> Dear Rony, I take that back, actually the official 64 bit >> version DOES work, and installs to /opt. I think this was my >> tinkering way back then. But /opt is a hidden folder on macOS >> so not so easy to find back once installed. >>> >>> You still need to set PATH=/opt/ooRexx/bin:$PATH (and >> DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/ooRexx/lib/ooRexx) to make it run and >> there is no uninstaller. But changing the pointer to 64 bit >> instead of 32 bit would be a good thing, also if the 4.1.2 is >> now 10 years old (September 2012). >> >> Just tried it from my Mac and got as download offered a "4.0 >> all" zip, which is also neither helpful nor useful for Apple >> users. So it is really time to get a nice, working and >> up-to-date version of ooRexx to the Apple table ... >> >> ---rony > > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
