Re: gnuplot Mac pkg

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, Jun T. wrote:

>
> 2016/03/10 02:05, Allin Cottrell <cot...@wf...> wrote:
>>
>> http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot-5.0.3-quartz.pkg
>> http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot-5.0.3-quartz.dmg
>
> Thanks. From the mounted dmg, I can install Gnuplot.app to anywhere,
> for example to my Desktop. If a user has no admin privilege then
> she/he can't install into /Applications.
>
>> On recent OS X this is kind of an "expert" option, since it may be
>> non-obvious what double-clicking on a DMG file does (it'll get mounted,
>> but likely hidden at the bottom of the finder window, so it can look as
>> if "nothing happened").
>
> Usually, when I double click on a dmg file, it is mounted, and its
> window is opened as a frontmost window, i.e., not covered by any other
> windows (at least on OS X 10.9.5). What do you mean by 'recent OS X'?

I'm not a Mac user myself, but... it seems to me that back on OS X 
10.6 my dmg files would open as expected, while from Lion onwards 
when I observed my students trying to install software from dmg 
files they would end up mounted "invisibly". This may have to do 
with settings that I don't understand.

> But yes, if I double click on the gnuplot dmg, it is mounted but no
> window opens. I don't know why.
> Another problem is the dmg is writable.
>
> How did you make the dmg file? Did you try DiskUtility.app? It can
> make a read-only (and compressed) dmg file.

No, I'm not using DiskUtility, I'm doing everything on Linux; that's 
my working environment. (I have occasional access to a Mac for 
testing.) But I think I've found a way of creating a more 
"idiomatic" DMG. There's now an updated build at

http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot-5.0.3-quartz.dmg

Allin Cottrell