osx version missing files?

[astrorob]

the "SkippyStak_mac_script_source" script tries to make an icon by creating a link to something in the IDL85 folder, but...

Code:

.../SkippyStak_MAC64/IDL85/bin/idl: No such file or directory

sure enough there is no bin directory in the IDL85 directory. is the OSX package incomplete?

thanks

rob

[Andrew Cool]

Hi Rob,

I may have cracked the Mac issue. I downloaded he Mac version of IDL, and pointed my package making script to that folder hierachy. It's certainly craeted  alarger zip file, and I hope it works.

Again, I cannot actually test, being Mac-bereft...

Andrew

[astrorob]

sorry i missed your reply and i'm sorry to hear you're going to discontinue this. i am not sure where you heard about macos being inconsistent from machine to machine, but that's not true as far as i know. and the kernel APIs have been very stable since 10.7 so software from that vintage should still work on 10.10... so i don't think you'll have much of a support nightmare on either front.

[Andrew Cool]

(21-01-2016, 09:39 AM)astrorob Wrote: sorry i missed your reply and i'm sorry to hear you're going to discontinue this. i am not sure where you heard about macos being inconsistent from machine to machine, but that's not true as far as i know. and the kernel APIs have been very stable since 10.7 so software from that vintage should still work on 10.10... so i don't think you'll have much of a support nightmare on either front.

"Discontinue" is perhaps the wrong word. But, if you're Mac-literate, I'm all ears as to what version of the Mac OS
I should try to build SKippyStak with.

If I just create one version using Leopard/Elephant/Hyena or whatever the latest version might be, is it then up
to users to somehow make it run in their OS?

Dumb questions to you, but the last Apple machine I touched was an Apple IIe... ;-)

Andrew

[Andrew Cool]

(11-01-2016, 06:29 AM)astrorob Wrote: the "SkippyStak_mac_script_source" script tries to make an icon by creating a link to something in the IDL85 folder, but...

Code:

.../SkippyStak_MAC64/IDL85/bin/idl: No such file or directory

sure enough there is no bin directory in the IDL85 directory. is the OSX package incomplete?

thanks

rob

I've been informed by the IDL Help Desk people that I actually do need to create the Mac distributable package on a  MAC computer.

This at is odds with their own routine to create distributable packages, and I have asked them to modify it to not allow
keywords pertaining to other platforms to be used if he routine is not being run on that paltform.

e.g. If being run on a Windows box, don't allow Mac keywords to be called. How hard can it be?

If I went ahead with trying to make a Mac version, how many different versions of the Mac OS would I need to cater for?
How many Leopards, giraffes and octopi versions would need to be built?

Andrew (who's adrift in the world of Mac...)