[Ifeffit] Building ifeffit Mac Mountain Lion
Jeff Terry
terryj at iit.edu
Fri Mar 22 19:58:27 CDT 2013
Hi Bruce,
Thanks for the update.
I will try that version on wxperl.
I will try Demeter with ifeffit then.
Jeff
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On Mar 22, 2013, at 7:19 AM, Bruce Ravel <bravel at bnl.gov> wrote:
>
> Two comments:
>
> (1) The current maintainer of wxperl claims
> (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.wxperl.users/2012/12/msg8628.html)
> that installation on the Mac should work out of the box since
> version 0.9915 (the current version at
> https://metacpan.org/module/Wx is 0.9917). I have not tried this
> myself, but mailing list participant Lyle Gordan has informed my
> privately that he was able to build wxperl and have it pass all
> its unit tests on his Mac.
>
> (2) I am, as Matt said, working on getting Demeter to use Larch. It's
> a work in progress. About 1/2 of Athena's functionality works
> with Larch. I have not yet started working on Artemis. It is
> time consuming, but not difficult, work. I will make an
> announcement when Athena fully supports Larch so that early
> adopters can help be suss out the bugs.
>
> B
>
>
> On Thursday, March 21, 2013 09:46:37 PM Matt Newville wrote:
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:32 PM, IIT <terryj at iit.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi Matt,
>>>
>>> No problem. I have succeeded in building and running ifeffit and pgplot
>>> on Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2. I thought this was the first step in
>>> building Demeter?
>>>
>>> Should I be using Larch instead for this?
>>
>> I'd say Yes. I may be biased, but not using PGPLOT is at least one
>> obvious benefit. But, I think Demeter may not be ready for
>> distribution with Larch. Bruce is working on it, and I think Athena
>> is more or less working, but I don't know the full status.
>>
>> Either with Ifeffit or Larch as the back end, getting wxPerl working
>> on OS X seems to be a large hassle. I've tried and failed several
>> times on 10.6.8 (my current MacBook Pro is that out-of-data, I
>> suppose). I'm willing to believe that having installed wxPython many
>> times on this machine has trashed it for wxPerl. But I have tried
>> (only once) building wxPerl on an 10.8 Mac mini at by beamline.... and
>> also failed. It looks to be possible with MacPorts, but I have not
>> succeeded in doing this myself.
>>
>> So, if you can solve that, I think the Mac OS X users would be very
>> grateful.....
>>
>> --Matt
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