Re: [Gretl-devel] gretl-quartz.dmg, second draft

Premise: I'm decidedly not a Mac guy, so I may be talking rubbish. 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 don't know whether the inability of running more than one GUI client is a deliberate choice from the Stata guys or if it has to do with some characteristic of the OS, but if so, for some reason gretl is not affected (X11?). It would be a shame if we lost it, for the sake of better OS integration. ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------