Re: Feature request: make clone

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

On 2 March 2016 at 20:49, Thomas Mattison wrote:
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> The motivation for this is mostly for installing gnuplot on Mac's of non-computer-science students.  Only one person (like an instructor) would need to download the compiler, download the gnuplot source, build the executables, and create the clone-directory.  Everyone else would just copy the clone-directory and run the script inside.
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> I realize this would not necessarily work if the student Mac is running a different system version from the instructor.  It may be necessary to make a different clone-directory for each OS X system version.  But it would only be necessary to do ONCE per version, and not require EVERY student to install the compiler and do the build.
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> I also realize that students would still need to install Aquaterm and/or X11, but those have "real" installers so it's not such a big deal.

Allin already answered in the same way as I would.

I wanted to add that you usually only have to build a binary for the
oldest OS and that should automatically work on newer OS versions.

But what about using a package manager like MacPorts or Homebrew? You
would then get all the dependencies (including AquaTerm, X11, Qt, wxt,
pango, cairo, gd, ...) as well a all the updates automatically.

In any case I would advise you to try to install the headers and
libraries somewhere else than in /usr/local to avoid "messing up" the
system.

Mojca

PS: If someone would write a similar Qt- or wxt-based GUI as the one
for Windows (that is: an app that starts with a GUI rather than in a
terminal), I would volunteer to create a binary for OS X. The main
annoyance is packaging a binary for the terminal.