Re: [RFC] Distro script for Mac OS X

[Per P. <per...@ma...>]

On Oct 21, 2004, at 18:08, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:00 am, Per Persson wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've cleaned up my distro script for Mac OS X and would like to add it
>> and it's supporting files to CVS.
>>
>> I suppose the top dir rather than src/ is the appropriate location for
>> a directory with the files?
>> Any objections to naming that dir "MacOSXDistro"?
>
> I'm not objecting, at least not yet, but I'm curious exactly what files
> these are.  I managed to install gnuplot on OSX directly from the 
> existing
> tree, and I am a total novice user to OSX.  What is needed beyond
> what is there already?

I'm talking about a script and supporting files to create the binary 
installer
and documentation in PDF that people right now are downloading from SF.

Nobody is questioning your ability to type ./configure;make but some 
users prefer a
double-clickable standard installer. In case I choose not to devote 
time to this
project anymore, at least there would be a way to create an installer 
for Mac OS X
from a point release by running a script.

This was previously discussed:
On Oct 2, 2004, at 13:15, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

>
>> In the long term, should I add the script (that creates installers) 
>> and
>> a few (3 at the moment) supporting files to gnuplot or should I keep 
>> it
>> separate?
>
> I think they should go into gnuplot.  We already lost at least one
> complete Macintosh port because its source never was integrated with
> the mainline source.  No good reason to let that happen again.

Well, It might happen again.

>> It relies on a GPL'd utility to pack stuff up. AINAL, but that should
>> not AFAICT cause any license violations. Comments?
>
> The existing build chain uses many GPL utitilities (gmake, autoconf, 
> etc).

This was in response to a question raise by HBB in a previous mail.


/Per