#11 Improve the documentation regarding deployment on Mac OS X

[Anonymous]

The section at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.9.9/deploying.html (Deploying programs that use PLplot) is incomplete for Mac OS X, with two TODO markers on the page.

Would it be possible for this to get improved by somebody who has experience in distributing plplot?

I'd especially be interested in how to bundle plplot-using programs in a completely self-contained .app package to users.

[Anonymous]

For anyone who's interested, I wrote a quick hack that disables the need for any external files such as the pl*.fnt and cmap files for plplot to work by storing the necessary info in the code.

It then makes deploying plplot much easier inside an .app bundle, as the only file you need to give users is the /usr/local/lib/libplplotd.dylib file and any dependencies.

If anybody wants to beautify or improve this patch please do so, again it's only a quick hack, but I guess it might be helpful for some people...

https://github.com/houbysoft/short/blob/master/jan-plplot-5.9.9-no-additional-files-to-install.patch

[Hazen Babcock]

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