I added a link. I tried to make the description of the ways to install PSPP on Mac as clear and correct as possible, but I do not have a Mac and possibly I misunderstood some of it. Please read what I wrote and send me corrections if you have them (or you could check them directly into the CVS for the webpage).
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 08:03:25AM +0200, Friedrich Beckmann wrote: > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
