Re: [Bugs-r-devel] Mac bug regressions

[Rodney S. <rsp...@mc...>]

Gorjanc Gregor wrote:
> Rodney,
>
> I have been reading some old e-mails and I now realize there are some subtle
> details. You say you have WinBUGS installed in /Applications/WinBUGS14. 
That's correct.

> For wine you have showed last time that the path is
>
> /Applications/Darwine/Wine.bundle/Contents/bin/wine
>
>   
That looks right. I don't have the bug report in front of me, but the
path is also in the workaround which should be the same.
> while we had some discussion in Dec 2006 where use of Crossover has been
> reported - there WinBUGS was installed in
>
> /Applications/CrossOver/WinBUGS14.app
>
>   
Well CrossOver is based on Wine, but apparently they have done something
else. WinBUGS14.app is what WinBUGS would look in the file system if
it were a Mac application. Since it is not, then I'm assuming this is
just a wrapper. With Darwine (Mac Wine), there is no wrapper. Launching
winbugs.exe starts Wine and runs winbugs.exe. You can double-click on
winbugs.exe or you can run it from the command line: open winbugs.exe
> Can you enlighten us how does one install an application, especially one for MS Windows,
> on Mac? I would like to know this at least for WinBUGS and for wine.
>
> gg
>   
It depends. Often the app comes with an installer like Darwine does and
installs it in /Applications as /Applications/Darwine.app
About equally often, there is just a file like Emacs.app that you
download and move to /Applications And, if we are talking about
a Mac app, then it has to be in either /Applications or /Developer
or it won't work: sort of a safety mechanism. And, those
are the only directories that have the right permissions to allow
all users on the system to do that. The only stuff that goes into
/Developer are the Apple XCode tools. So, /Applications is where
everything else goes. For MS Windows apps, it's similar. Many
MS Windows apps come with an installer like WinBUGS. So, you run
that and install it in Z:\Applications\WinBUGS14 Others, like
OpenBUGS, you just unzip into /Applications/OpenBUGS

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