Re: Building wxt terminal for OS X

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 17 November 2006 01:33 pm, Joe Koski wrote:
> on 11/17/06 1:48 PM, Per Persson at per...@ma... wrote:
> >
> > I still maintain my opinions that 
> > 1) building an X11 based wxt  terminal should be straightforward
> > 2) a "native" wxt terminal is going to take a lot of work.
>
> I think Per's assessment is correct. The problem is not with wxt, but
> with the necessity for "bundling" wxWidget applications for native
> use on the Mac. 

You call it a necessity, where Per implies that it is simply a
matter of choice between X11 and "native".  Which is it?

If it's just a matter of choice, it would be nice to provide
a concise statement of what is needed to build an X11-based
wxt terminal under OSX.  And of course since that is the only
working option, it should be made the default.

In this scenario, can the code in .../term/wxt.trm and 
 .../src/wxterminal/*  be used with no change from the 
state in 4.2-rc1?

> The current gnuplot-4.2.rc1 continues to work well on my Mac, with
> Per's AquaTerm doing the job for .eps and .pdf output.

Much as I appreciate Per's work on aquaterm, it remains
short on features compared to either x11 or wxt. I'm sure that
beefing up aquaterm is possible, but it's clearly not going to
happen for version 4.2.  The wxt terminal, on the other hand,
is all ready to go except for installation instructions.


-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA