Re: [q-lang-users] Compiling Q on Mac OS X

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Super! I think MacPorts is the easiest way to install software that's  
> distributed in source form on a Mac, so a pointer on your web site  
> would be great.

Done.

> I don't use Q myself, so I'm not familiar with what all would be  
> appropriate to add.

Well, different programmers need different things, but most programmers
want XML and databases nowadays, so for a start you could add the xml
and sqlite3 modules, maybe also the ODBC interface. And then there's the
Qt/Q module (GUI programming) and Q-OpenGL (also useful in conjunction
with Qt/Q since it allows you to draw 3D graphics in a Qt window).

There's also a Qt application called QCalc which provides a spreadsheet
as an alternative frontend to the Q interpreter, which makes it easy to
learn Q and use it as a sophisticated kind of desktop calculator. This
should be easy to install once Qt/Q is working, since it's just a Q
script, nothing to compile.

These are just some ideas what could be useful and fun...

Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
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