[Gretl-devel] gretl on mac os10.5

[Sven Schreiber]

Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti schrieb:
>
> I believe that at some point gretl was part of the fink offering; this 
> was very early on, like version 1.5.0 or so. I don't know what the 
> present state if Fink is, but IMO the only long-term solution for OSX 
> support is to have one or more of the Fink guys maintain a gretl 
> package, like Dirk Eddelbuettel does for Debian.

Ah yes, 1.5.0 is even listed for os 10.5 (only non-binary, and it never 
made it into stable, but still...). I'm installing it now, but this 
takes a while, because all the dependencies have to be compiled (no 
binary fink dist for 10.5 yet it seems).

Of course I agree a Mac fink maintainer would be great... Not me 
however, I am not sure how long my current involvement with the Mac 
platform will last.

>
> Alternatively, someone suggested me to check out MacPorts 
> (http://www.macports.org/). Apparently, this is an OSX translation of 
> the "port" mechanism they use in BSD-land. One may conjecture that 
> with MacPorts installed, it could be possible to adapt the FreeBSD 
> gretl port (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/math/gretl/). 
> But I'm talking about something I really have no clue on, so be 
> careful :-)
>
don't worry, I certainly won't fiddle with that...

cheers,
sven