[Gretl-users] Gretl on Mac OS-X Leopard

This is a general warning. I have recently upgraded the version of OS-X on a Mac to version 10.5 (Leopard). I have found that Gretl does not seem to work with the new version of X11 in Leopard. Nor am I able to follow the debugging instructions given in the Readme pdf file because I cannot get to the directory Gretl.app/... specified. I was able to get Gretl to work with version 10.4 (Tiger) of OS-X without any significant difficulty. From brief investigation it seems that Apple has a large number of unresolved problems with X11 in the initial release of Leopard, so that I suspect that it may not be worth trying to get Gretl to work with Leopard until these problems are sorted out. This is not important for me because I can use Gretl on a Windows PC or on a Windows virtual machine on my Mac via VMWare Fusion. However, for those without such options it may be worth postponing any planned upgrade to Leopard until they release version 10.5.1 (or later) with a version of X11 that functions properly. Regards Gordon Hughes =================== Professor Gordon Hughes Department of Economics University of Edinburgh 50 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9JY United Kingdom E-mail : G.A.Hughes(a)ed.ac.uk