Derek Lamb wrote: >Wish I could help you more with the MacOS X issues, but I just used MacPorts. I know you're morally opposed and everything, but maybe even looking at how they do their installs will give you some pointers.
ha ha! Derek, I am certainly not morally opposed to packaged installs. My hesitation stems from bad experience with Fink, the continued mystery of what goes where, and the desire to learn the innards. I am a very, very beginner user and programmer -- much behind you all. Most others are at a stage that they don't have to care about where stuff is because ironically they are really good with it. Since I don't know how things work, I feel I need to learn the basics as I go along. That said, actually, the instructions I was following at [http://iparrizar.mnstate.edu/~juan/urania/2009/10/23/pgplot-on-snow-leopard/] are from someone who did study and crib from MacPorts. I think my problem is stemming from the way I have arrived where I am -- I have MacBook that had 32-bit Leopard on it for more than a year. I upgraded that to 64-bit Snow Leopard, and now I have mix of 32-bit/64-bit stuff all over the place. I have been cleaning and resolving problems as I come across them. The X issue is a more complicated one, because, in the meantime, Apple seems to have washed its hands off of X. Personally, I don't like X myself. From an aesthetic point of view, it is ugly. That said, it can be useful for one-off things such as showing a PGPLOT demo. Audience likes gee-wiz stuff, and most such stuff is visual. I will indeed look at MacPorts again, although I think I might do well to just wipe out my MacBook and reinstall Snow Leopard on it from scratch. Of course, that would also wipe out about a week's worth of productive time... Thanks for the tips though. -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Fellow http://creativecommons.org/about/people/fellows#puneetkishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science =========================================================================== _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
