Re: [Gretl-users] Issues with MacBook Pros
On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Berend Hasselman wrote:
On 06-02-2012, at 13:36, Data Analytics Corp. wrote:
>
> I teach a course in econometrics in which the students are required to
> use Gretl. I've been using Gretl for several years with no problems.
> But this semester, several students have complained that Gretl would
> either crash when they used the script editor or it wouldn't load.
> These students are using a MacBook Pro, at least one of which is a new
> computer. For the crashing, they said that they just typed the letter g
> (when trying to enter the command genr) and Gretl immediately closed;
> the menu option to create a variable worked fine. For the loading
> issue, some found that only a terminal program loaded; they were unable
> to load Gretl that looked like the Gretl demoed in class.
>
> Are there any issues with Gretl for MacBook Pros I should know about?
Not that I know of.
Which version of Mac OS X are the students using?
Have they installed the GTK_ framwork from Gretl's site?
As mentioned in Step 2 on the Gretl mac OS X page.
> The downloads were for the newest version.
The newest version refers to Gretl?
I've heard of other people having trouble with gretl on
current OS X lately. So far as I can tell this is mostly due
to not reading the installation instructions, but the
instructions may be unnecessarily confusing due to the
Intel/PPC business. To try to head off confusion I've now
split the "gretl on OS X" page, with a sub-page for each
architecture. Comments welcome.
While on this subject -- any ideas on how long we need to
maintain PPC Mac support? Is it already redundant?
Allin Cottrell