I'm cautious to raise false hopes, but I finally worked out some of my static building issues yesterday. If a mac guru can give me a hint on how to use the new command line package manager, I think I'm close to a new SciPDL build.
Matt On 10 April 2014 15:18, Chris Marshall <devel.chm...@gmail.com> wrote: > HI Derek/Mac Users/Developers- > > How are things going with SciPDL building? > > I'm giving myself a deadline to finish the 64bit index > support for a PDL-2.008 release (maybe candidate) > before the DCBPW and the PDL3 hackathon. That > way any talks, planning, and coding can look > forward rather than backward at PDL-2.x issues. > > It would be great to have a SciPDL-2.008 to go with. > > --Chris > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Derek Lamb <de...@boulder.swri.edu> wrote: >> >> Ignorance, maybe? >> >> On the other hand--"An application that installs kernel extensions, >> startup items, system-wide preference panes, or any other system-wide >> resources cannot be installed [as a bundle] by dragging the application, >> since those resources need to be in a separate place on the drive." >> >> Since we're using the system perl and installing extra perl libs into >> /usr/local/lib, then that is probably why we are using an installer. >> PackageMaker.app was deprecated by Apple in favor of some command-line >> utils, so the functionality is still there. >> >> If we wanted to zip up our own perl & ship it with, then we could probably >> use a bundle, and that would get around the problem of SciPDL only working >> on one version of OS X.... that's less of an issue now since Mavericks is a >> free upgrade, but some people (incl. me) haven't bitten the bullet yet. >> >> Derek >> >> On Feb 20, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Chris Marshall wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Derek Lamb <de...@boulder.swri.edu> >> > wrote: >> >> As an update: >> >> >> >> I have a VirtualBox with OS X 10.9 Mavericks cleanly installed, all of >> >> the >> >> development tools, and figuring out how to make a Mac package. >> >> Unfortunately, >> >> at some point Apple has deprecated PackageMaker.app, which was used to >> >> bundle all of SciPDL together. Hoping that it will still work for one >> >> more iteration. >> > >> > Any reason we're not using a bundle instead of an installer? The >> > directions >> > won't help much if the PackageMaker.app disappears before the PDL-2.008 >> > release... >> > >> > -chm >> > >> >> So yes, SciPDL work is progressing, but only when I can cobble together >> >> a >> >> half-hour at a time in between teaching, grading, kids, etc. >> >> >> >> best, >> >> Derek >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > PDL-porters mailing list > PDL-porters@jach.hawaii.edu > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/pdl-porters > -- Matthew Kenworthy / Assistant Professor / Leiden Observatory / NL http://home.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~kenworthy/ _______________________________________________ PDL-porters mailing list PDL-porters@jach.hawaii.edu http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/pdl-porters
