Re: [Gretl-users] Running gretlcli on Mac OS X
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Allin Cottrell wrote:
Maybe we should move the real gretlcli binary to, say, gretlcli.bin
and install a script named gretlcli which calls gretlcli.bin with
the relevant environment variables set appropriately. We haven't
paid much attention to this so far, on the assumption that 99 point
something percent of Mac users will never have any occasion to use
the CLI program. But we should also consider the "one percent"!
Not to mention the fact that, for running heavy-duty tasks, using the cli
interface is largely preferable for a number of reasons. It even gives you
a modest performance gain compared to the GUI interface.
(And I guess we could say the same goes for Windows -- although in
that case the CLI is even less likely to be used since there is by
default no half-way usable shell on Windows, while the Mac has a
pretty decent terminal program that runs bash, even if nobody but
l33t haxors knows about it.)
I know very little about it, but I believe that recent versions of windows
have something called the "power shell", or something like that, which is
a much more serious alternative to bash. It's even got a scripting
language which, I am told, is quite powerful and flexible. That said, I
suspect that the share of windows users which are even aware of it is far,
far from 1%.
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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
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