On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Henrique wrote:
> > It might be possible to create a more user-friendly packaging of
> > the data files for the Mac (e.g. dmg format, with some sort of
> > auto-detection for where the data ought to be installed), but my
> > feeling is that this should probably come from the Mac-using
> > community. <http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users>
>
> I'll try to do this!
Thanks, Henrique. As I see it, it should be pretty easy to turn a
tar.gz package into a dmg, but more difficult to automate the
business of installing the files to the right location. Here are
a couple of thoughts:
1) With any luck, the correct path information should be available
in ~/.gretl2rc
gretldir = ...
userdir = ...
so some clever scripting could do the job.
2) This would require a modification to gretl on OS X, but we
could try to support dragging and dropping a dmg data package file
onto the main window of gretl: gretl would then know the correct
path and could make an OS call to unpack the dmg in the right
location.
Allin.