[rkward-devel] mac issues

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:02:24 +0100
meik michalke <Meik.Michalke at uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
> well, there are still some issues on mac. the good news is: the build
> looks ok, i.e., there is no all.pluginmap but all the individual
> pluginmaps.
> 
> 1. however, these maps cannot be loaded, RKWard considers them
> "broken", but the files look fine.

I think it is probably related to renaming the version to 0.6.3-git.
When I try this, here (on Ubuntu), pluginmaps will get refused, too.
Probably, "0.6.3-" somehow sorts after "0.6.3y", which the pluginmaps
specify as maxmimum version allowed (to guard against accidental
loading by later versions of RKWard, which should ship their own
pluginmaps).

Not sure, whether that is what we want. But there is a reason
for those cumbersome version names we're using elsewhere, namely to make
sure development versions sort correctly across the board (i.e. also in
distributions / package managers). I suggest keeping those, at least
internally (though it should be safe to append "-git", there).
 
> 2. there's the error message that RKWard needs plugins, it points the
> user to "settings -> configure RKWard", but the correct place would
> be "settings -> manage R packages and plugins..."; trying to add any
> of the pluginmaps doesn't work.

Will fix the string. Loading pluginmaps: See above.

> 3. when RKWard is launched, there are two icons in the dock, one
> labeled "RKWard", the second one "rkward.frontend".

The first one goes away, after some time, right?

Could you try this:
http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/disable-the-dock-icon-for-any-application.php

Unfortunately, the second one will continue to be called
rkward.frontend. No idea, how that can be fixed, yet.

Regards
Thomas
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