Re: Instructions to make wxtp terminal run on Mac OS X with patch

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 09:37, Werner Smekal wrote:
>
>>> Thank you so much for contributing these fixes and instructions!
>>> I'm not sure how best to package them for use by other OSX users,
>>> but we'll find a way.
>>
>> It makes sense to ask developers of gnuplot packages for fink and
>> macports to try to adapt for the changes. This would be the easiest
>> way to get wxt terminal to mac users.
>
> But it should also be a package outside of fink and macport be provided.
> These projects (fink and macports) are cool, but not all want to compile
> for 2 hours until they can use gnuplot (and compiling all packages
> needed for pango takes a long time). And sadly more often then I would
> hope for I encounter some package which doesn't compile correctly (both
> for fink and macports) - quality is not right there IMO.

I fully agree with that, but as far as I know there is currently no
binary version of gnuplot available at all (one link doesn't work and
the other one only claims to have PPC binaries which I wasn't able to
download and would not work on my computer anyway).

I compile some programs for TeX community, but they have all the
libraries built in statically (the source repository provides all the
sources of libraries, so that I don't need to install anything special
in advance and compilation works out of the box).

Some mac fan would need to sit down and do it properly ... and it
would take some time even without wxt (I would be glad to see that
happen though).

Mojca