Re: [Gretl-devel] gretl-quartz.dmg, second draft
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Henrique Andrade wrote:
2013/3/20 Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>
> 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.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think multiple instances is not ordinary
feature in OS X.
I've now checked: if you launch gretl by clicking its icon you
only get one instance, but you can run another instance by
launching the program from the command line. Note that with
the new quartz build, the command-line invocation is
/path/to/Gretl.app/Contents/MacOS/Gretl
> 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.
Dear Allin, today I'll re-start to test the new build. I think I could
help more because now I have three different Macs (I'm a lucky
guy!) with very different configurations.
Thanks. Atually it took me a bit longer to get a new build in
place under "osx-testing", but that's done now.
Allin