[R-SIG-Mac] Re: Double-clicking Darwin-Aqua R-devel

[Stefano Iacus]

On Venerdì, giu 13, 2003, at 12:55 Europe/Rome, G. Sawitzki wrote:

> Stefano, thank you for the Darwin-Aqua R-devel.
>
> here are first observations:
>
> 1) the application must be named exactly as distributed. Usually I 
> would ad a version number, but this leads to
>
> /Applications/RAqua.app/R.bin.app/Contents/MacOS/R: 
> /Applications/RAqua.app/R.bin.app/Contents/MacOS/R: No such file or 
> directory
>

this is not as simple as you might think. I got mad with Apple's 
descriptions of bundles with is not correct or explicit sometimes.
The "executable" must have the same name of the bundle.

For who is interested, I have adopted this strategy that can be changed 
later
I have a bundle app that is RAqua.app which has in its interior the 
R.bin.app bundle (note the name, R binary is R.bin and not R which is a 
shell script). The RAqua.app launches another bundle which is R.bin.app.
This is why you see R.bin as application name when R is launched.


I can be more precise if you need more details

> 2) libdl.0.dylib must be installed, eg. from fink. Else you get
> dyld: /Applications/RAqua.app/R.bin.app/Contents/MacOS/R.bin can't 
> open library: /usr/lib/libdl.0.dylib  (No such file or directory, 
> errno = 2)
>
umh, it can probably the dlcompat stuff. Thanks for spotting this.

> 3) it seems two processes are lauched, and both show up in the dock:
> 17562  ??  S      0:00.01 /Applications/RAqua.app/Contents/MacOS/RAqua 
> -psn_0_6291457 HOME=/Users/gs SHELL=/bin/tcsh ....
> 17563  ??  S      0:09.72 
> /Applications/RAqua.app/R.bin.app/Contents/MacOS/R.bin --gui-aqua 
> PWD=/ R_HOME=/Applications/RAqua.app/R.bin.app/Contents 
> R_SESSION_TMPDIR=/tmp/Rtmp17563 ....
>
yes, this is due to the two bundles. But I can fix this

> 4) The menus seem not to work any more.
>
this is not yet implemented.
As stated elsewhere, I just wanted to provide some scheleton working 
code in the hope that many of you can contribute in the future.

>
> I hope to try more over the weekend.
>
yes, but don't expect too much I'll take next dayes to finish most of 
the GUI.
The real problems will come later with things like packages 
installation etc.

stefano


>  Greetings,
>   g.
>
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