Hi Ben, thanks for adding the link. I think this description is fine.
Friedrich > Am 15.10.2016 um 00:38 schrieb Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu>: > > 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 >>> <friedrich.beckm...@gmx.de>: >>> >>> Hi Jeremy, >>> >>>> Am 19.09.2016 um 15:57 schrieb Jeremy Lavergne <jer...@lavergne.me >>>> <mailto:jer...@lavergne.me>>: >>>> >>>> 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 pspp-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev