[Rd] Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R version on gifi
Don MacQueen
macq at llnl.gov
Tue Jun 17 11:18:47 MEST 2003
At 5:45 PM +0200 6/17/03, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 05:11 PM, Don MacQueen wrote:
>
>>>The really native version doesn't really need to depend on X11
>>>anymore since the use of X11 on Mac OS X was meant for
>>>applications that are not properly ported to OS X yet. Once Quartz
>>>and RAqua are complete there is no need for X11.
>>
>>Except for one major flaw in Aqua--the absence of "focus follows
>>mouse", as it is sometimes called in an X
>Yes, this is indeed a very nice feature (I've been using it on unix
>all time), but it can be disastrous at the same time. MS Windows has
>an undocumented registry key which allows you to enable this, but
>once you do that you'll realize that a lot of applications assume
>'topmost-has-focus' state and are almost unusable if the
>'focus-follows-mouse' is enabled (example: if you have a mouse over
>a toolbar your document window is inactive - most applications can't
>deal with that). I'm not sure about this in OS X (since we can't
>really test it ;P), but something similar might happen.
>
>>Jan cited "Gerben Wierda's i-installer" as a source for jpeg, png,
>>and teTex. This source is somehow more "official" than fink? But,
>>considering what Jan says, i.e. "everything needed in /usr/local
>>will" be included with the installer package, it doesn't matter to
>>the end user.
>Exactly, that's the point :) We don't want to assume things that are
>non-standard. We should provide them if necessary.
>
>There is still one issue to consider in this context: source
>packages. A really 'plain' Mac OS X can't be used to install source
>packages as-is, basically because there are three missing things:
>Dev Tools, g77 and latex. The first one is official, so we could
>require that (and probably have to). G77 is really just a few files,
>so the installer could add it if necessary, but I'm not sure about
>latex. Is building packages w/o latex documentation an option?
For an OS X user with no unix background, I would think that pdf is
the preferred format, and sufficient.
>The direct use of source packages seems to me as the greatest
>benefit of OSX being unix-based, therefore i wouldn't like to miss
>it, even if I was pure Mac user...
>
>
>Cheers,
>Simon
>
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Don MacQueen
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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