Hi Ben, I have made a webpage for downloading a pspp Mac bundle as an alternative to the installation via macports.
https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~beckmanf/pspp/ <https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~beckmanf/pspp/> Could you add a link to that page on the pspp gnu page? https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/get.html <https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/get.html> in the MacOS section? Regards Friedrich > Am 19.09.2016 um 20:08 schrieb Friedrich Beckmann <[email protected]>: > > Hi Jeremy, > >> Am 19.09.2016 um 15:57 schrieb Jeremy Lavergne <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>>: >> >> I'd recommend asking PSPP to post a link to the bundles: it'd be better >> to have direct links from PSPP to your project than secondary ones from me. > > I can make a web page for the bundles. > >> If we can get your bundles working for all versions of the OS, that'd be >> spectacular and makes my efforts unnecessary :-) > > Would be nice, but it is not that simple. Technically the OSX bundles are > based > on the macports version of pspp. So having pspp in macports is a > prerequisite for building the bundle. It would only be a simpler way of > distribution and installation for those who have problems with macports. > The bundle will also not make pspp reachable via commandline. > > I also have no plan to have older osx versions in virtual machines to build > and test the bundles for older osx versions. I have a macbook running El > Capitan. > > The bundles are build for the Quartz backend of gtk, so they do not use the X > Server. > There are some differences in rendering. For example > the gtk quartz backend does not show the blue text in the syntax editor. > > <Bildschirmfoto 2016-09-19 um 19.52.53.jpeg> > > > >> On 09/14/2016 01:48 PM, Friedrich Beckmann wrote: >>> i produced a standard MacOS application >>> bundle for pspp on OSX El Capitan 10.11.6 based on the >>> current macports pspp version 0.10.2. I used this script >>> >>> https://github.com/fredowski/osxbundler >>> <https://github.com/fredowski/osxbundler> >>> >>> to build the bundle. This is based on gtk-mac-bundler. The >>> bundle is based on the quartz backend of gtk3, i.e. no XServer >>> is required. I provide the bundle here: >>> >>> http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~beckmanf/pspp-0.10.2.dmg >>> >>> Using the bundle does not require to install macports or the X11 Server. >>> >>> What do you think about promoting the bundle as alternative to >>> macports install via your pspp osx webpage: >>> >>> https://lavergne.me/projects/pspp/ >
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