[rkward-devel] mac port updated

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi,

On Wednesday 24 October 2012, meik michalke wrote:
> i've updated the mac port of RKWard to 0.6.0 now, and as thomas requested,
> also edited the wiki page to sound a little more optimistic, which should
> reflect the current status ;-)
>  http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/rkward/index.php?title=RKWard_on_Mac

thanks! I'm still waiting for the Windows bundle to upload (I had some 
connectivity problems), and I'll wait with the highly visible announcements 
(freshmeat and kde-apps.org) until that is available. Announcement on this 
list to follow in a few minutes.

> i marked the fink instructions as "obsolete", hope that's ok.

Yes, definitely.

> when i was testing the new bundle, my colleague jana confirmed that these
> disk image installers usually copy *everything* to /Applications (the
> current bundle installs mostly to /opt/rkward, only the start scripts go
> to /Applications/RKWard). it might be worth a try to change /opt/rkward to
> some folder below /Applications/RKWard, because this would make
> uninstallation and therefore updates easier in the future: just drag the
> RKWard folder to the trashcan. an update script can also run "rm -rf
> /Applications/RKWard", if we want that (it could of course also remove
> /opt/rkward, but i'd hesitate because it could cause unwanted damage if we
> just removed folders below /opt).

Sounds plausible. Then I guess there'll be an RKWard icon right inside 
/Applications/RKWard, and everything else stuffed into a subdirectory, right? 
I'm all for it, but of course it should get decent testing, first.

> one last thing, i propose to change the main page if the wiki a little. it
> currently reads like it assumes everyone already knows what RKWard is. so i
> think it would be a good idea to add another text box before/above the
> "current news", containing one screenshot showing RKWard in action, and
> next to it one/two sentences explaining that it's a GUI for R. right below
> that, with a little space, there should be three columns with icons of the
> three mainly supported OSs:
> 
>                           Get RKWard 0.6.0:
> 
>              [img]              [img]             [img]
>          for GNU/Linux       for Windows       for MacOS X

Go for it (but, of course, please preview your changes extra carefully, before 
touching the front page).

> linking to the respective wiki pages (or even the bundles for the latter
> two?)

I think the intermediate step of the platform specific wiki pages is still 
needed. But of course we could add more promiment download links on the top of 
these pages.

Regards
Thomas
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