I saw the following on Usenet comp.lang.rexx. They mention stable 5.0 and 6.0 beta available; we're at 4.0.1_2. The Java bridge (only for the 6.0 beta?) sounds interesting, if perhaps a complication in terms of dependencies and/or building.
Looks to me like we're at least a major version behind, or is there a reason (other than lack of maintenance) for remaining at version 4? From: Rony <[email protected]> Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx Subject: Re: macOS-Version of ooRexx Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:50:13 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 38 Message-ID: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> NNTP-Posting-Host: vsjboTW834gneT5Z1HBvTQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: [email protected] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3534794420 X-Received-Bytes: 2750 On 23.03.2017 19:38, [email protected] wrote: > Is there still somebody compiling a macOS version of ooRexx? > > If not, can somebody explain to me the procedure how to compile ooRexx from > source on a Mac and where to find the source? > > The last version to download is 4.12. I would like to have the most recent > version 5.x. You may want to try <https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsf4oorexx/files/beta/20161026/b4r_600_500_65Bit_macosx.zip/download>. This is a bundle of ooRexx 5.0 and the beta version of BSF4ooRexx 6.00 as of this January 2017 and considered to be stable. Please note that in order to install this package you must have Java installed. The reason being that BSF4ooRexx is a bridge between Rexx and Java and therefore needs Java. Once installed, go into the Applications folder and open the ooRexx.app, which will cause a menu to be created that allows you to even get a GUI "rexxtry.rex". This is possible, because creating GUIs with Java makes them available on all platforms, in this case MacOSX, but the same ooRexx-program runs unchanged on Linux and Windows. Via the menu you should be able to get at the ooRexx documentation. There is also documentation about BSF4ooRexx and in the samples folder plenty of nutshell examples that demonstrate and teach how to take advantage of Java, which is being camouflaged as the caseless and dynamically typed ooRexx, making it easy to take full advantage of Java. Another thing you should know for Mac platform: on the commandline (in the Terminal) you can start Rexx programs using "rexx", both plain Rexx and Rexx programs that use Java as a huge external Rexx function/class library. However, if you run nutshell samples that create and use GUIs from the commandline (from the Terminal) then you must use the script "rexxj.sh" instead of "rexx". HTH, ---rony
