On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:

> My friends who own a Mac and use the OSX version of Stata tell me that,
> contrary to what happens under Win & Linux, you cannot start multiple
> instances, which is a royal PITA for Stata users (it seems that you have to
> keep multiple instances open that when merging datasets). As for gretl, I
> never felt I _needed_ to have multiple instances of gfretl's GUI client open
> simultaneously, but in some cases being able to is a good thing.

I haven't checked yet, but I think you should be able to run
multiple instances of the bundled gretl app on OS X. I believe
this is controlled by an entry in the bundle's Info.plist
file: you can specify a "single instance" policy if you want
to, but I haven't done that.

BTW, I realize I messed up with my most recent dmg build: the
bundled gnuplot has an external dependency on the AquaTerm
framework when that should have been redirected within the
bundle. I'll put up a fixed build tonight.