8:10 p.m.
I have several mac-using students who are having difficulty installing the textbook data
sets (Stock-Watson, specifically). The self-installing (*.exe) files don't seem to
work for them. Being mac-illiterate myself, I'm not sure what to tell them. Any
thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
PS
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Dr. Peter Summers
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics & Geography
Texas Tech University
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10:27 p.m.
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Summers, Peter wrote:
I have several mac-using students who are having difficulty
installing
the textbook data sets (Stock-Watson, specifically). The self-installing
(*.exe) files don’t seem to work for them. Being mac-illiterate myself,
I’m not sure what to tell them. Any thoughts?
I'm no mac expert, but as far as I know OSX should handle tar.gz files
just fine. Mac users can download the gzipped tarball from the usual
place (http://gretl.sourceforge.net/gretl_data.html) and unpack them
following the instructions on the same page.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti
12:42 a.m.
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
I'm no mac expert, but as far as I know OSX should handle tar.gz
files just fine. Mac users can download the gzipped tarball from
the usual place (http://gretl.sourceforge.net/gretl_data.html)
and unpack them following the instructions on the same page.
Yes, Jack is right: Mac users should use the .tar.gz files. We
should probably add a note to this effect to the gretl data page.
Certainly, the Windows self-installers (.exe) will not work on the
Mac.
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.
Allin Cottrell
1:14 p.m.
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!
Henrique
6:42 p.m.
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.
4:36 a.m.
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.
Allin,
I'd built a dmg file that contains the Dougherty's database and a
shortcut to the gretl's database folder. I'd tested on my own mac and it
worked fine, but I'm not sure that it will work in all mac computers.
Best,
Henrique
2008/10/11 Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu>
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.
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6:44 p.m.
On Mon, 13 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.
I'd built a dmg file that contains the Dougherty's database and a
shortcut to the gretl's database folder. I'd tested on my own mac and it
worked fine, but I'm not sure that it will work in all mac computers.
Thanks, I will test that as soon as I get a chance.
Allin Cottrell
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