[Ifeffit] Hephaestus

[Paul Fons]

I should have mentioned as well that there is a link on the ifeffit  
wiki page (under Macintosh) to the Jeff's intel version as well as  
the powerpc version (http://cars9.uchicago.edu/iffwiki/Downloads).   
There is an also an explanation there stating X11 is necessary under  
platform notes.  I did find something that might be improved.  On the  
ifeffit page, there is a link on the first page (http:// 
cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/) to "Get the latest version" and if you  
follow that link  (http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/download.html),  
you are lead to believe that the power pc version is the only version  
for the Mac (there is no explanation otherwise) and the only link  
leads to the powerpc version.  We could probably solve some of the  
confusion by adding an Intel Mac to the list.  Ultimately, the best  
solution would be to make a "universal installer".  First fixing the  
link on the "Get the latest version" would seem to be an easy fix  
(note this isn't a wiki page or I would have fixed it already).

				Paul


On Feb 23, 2007, at 12:57 AM, Jeff Terry wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I believe that there is a link to a Mac Intel version of these at the
> MRCAT home page:
>
> http://mrcat.iit.edu/
>
> There should be an installer for the Intel Macs there. It does
> require X11 to be installed already.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Feb 22, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Paul Fons wrote:
>
>> Yes,
>> 	This is the case -- as I made the mac installer.  The x86 mac cpu
>> version was made by Jeff Terry.  I am getting a new macpro notebook
>> this week so I will start working on the installer sometime soon
>> hopefully.  I am still a little scared by Jeff's saying it wasn't
>> trivial.  Were there a lot of changes necessary?  Jeff, could some of
>> these be fed back upstream to Matt?
>>
>> 				Paul
>> On Feb 22, 2007, at 12:27 PM, Matt Newville wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Carloine,
>>>
>>> On 2/21/07, Caroline Peacock <clp at noc.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Have just installed the Ifeffit package
>>>> (feffit-1.2.9-Mac10.4_horae64pre_pkg.dmg) on my Intel Mac
>>>> (OS X 10.4.8)... Upon double clicking Hephaestus (as instructed in
>>>> the
>>>> readme) i am prompted to choose either X11 graphics or Aquaterm -
>>>> either way
>>>> X11 opens and then nothing...Is this a UNIX based program - from  
>>>> the
>>>> screenshots i guessed it wasn't?
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas why it isn't working?
>>>
>>> I'm copying this to the Ifeffit mailing list, as I think someone  
>>> else
>>> may have a better answer than I can give.     Hephaestus does  
>>> require
>>> X11, but I think the problem is that the Ifeffit-1.2.9 disk
>>> installers
>>> are all PPC only.
>>>
>>> That is, I think no one has made an installer for Intel Mac.
>>>
>>> --Matt
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