conflict with macports

[Adam Dershowitz Ph.D., P.E.]

I just want to add, that I have now had a few emails with Z88 support as well.  While it seems that he is not the primary developer, and English is not his native language (and I speak no German), he has been very understanding and supportive.  I concur that they now do understand the problem and have said that they are going to fix it.  Probably by moving all of their required libraries into the same directory structure as they have for their application, instead of having two different installers into two different locations (one of which is /opt/local).
They do a bunch of testing of their functionality before they do releases, so it might be a little while before they get things fixed and released. 
But, I am looking forward to trying Z88 out.

--Adam



On Jun 11, 2014, at 11:12 AM, Brethen, Mark Douglas. (MSFC-ER41)[ESSSA] <mark.brethen at nasa.gov> wrote:

> Received another response from the z88 developer this morning, and it looks like they are going to resolve the problem one way, or another. I did follow up with his question in regard to running z88 without using their GTK+ package, and mentioned the outdated png library. There may be other issues as well, such as missing fonts and icons, etc.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Z88Aurora Support [mailto:z88aurora at uni-bayreuth.de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 8:06 AM
> To: Brethen, Mark Douglas. (MSFC-ER41)[ESSSA]
> Subject: AW: conflict with macports
> 
> Dear Mr. Brethen,
> 
> I just tried to install MacPorts and GTK+ after Z88Aurora, which resulted in overwriting most of the GTK+ 2.0 files used for Z88.
> But Z88Aurora still runs perfectly, just some icons are missing.
> Have you tried running Z88Aurora without using our GTK4Z88 package? Just install GTK2 via MacPorts and try for yourself, maybe it helps.
> 
> Another issue regarding GTK3 exists, which results in Z88Aurora not working at all. So if you have GTK3 installed, it is not possible to run Z88Aurora without massive errors.
> 
> Again, there is a much more simple approach to run Z88Aurora while not breaking MacPorts: use two /opt/local directories and just rename them before you run the software.
> For Z88Aurora, rename
> /opt/local to /opt/local_macports
> and
> /opt/local_Z88 to /opt/local
> (Or use aliases)
> For Macports vice versa...you just can't use macports and Z88Aurora the same time.
> 
> We are looking into the problem and may be solving this issue with the next release, but this will take some months to become available to the public.
> 
> I hope this was of some help to you.
> 
> Kind regards from Germany,
> 
> S. Hautsch
> Support Z88Aurora
> Lehrstuhl für Konstruktionslehre und CAD Universität Bayreuth Universitätsstraße 30
> 95447 Bayreuth
> E-Mail: z88aurora at uni-bayreuth.de
> Internet: www.z88.de
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Brethen, Mark Douglas. (MSFC-ER41)[ESSSA] [mailto:mark.brethen at nasa.gov]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Juni 2014 15:04
> An: Z88Aurora Support
> Betreff: Re: conflict with macports
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Macports is a package manager similar to those used on linux systems. Mac users can install and maintain all sorts of open-source software. For instance, I have already used it to maintain a GTK+ package on my mac. Files written into the MacPorts prefix (/opt/local by default) by 3rd-party software leads to errors and could necessitate reinstalling macports.
> 
> Please consider either to move the location of the libraries (e.g.
> /opt/z88), and require your own GTK+ package, or to use the newer versions of the libraries, so that a Macports install with up-to-date libraries would cover it.  Then the extra install would be optional.  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
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