> > > What is the likelihood of someone building Dipso on Mac OSX (with the
> > > current non-cvs source) and have it work completely? Apparently, someone
> > > has done it (sceptical).
> >
> > The Starlink distributed version of DIPSO depends on AST and a few other
> > things like NDF, they'd have to port all that first. However DIPSO wasn't
> > originally a Starlink application. It's possible a pre-Starlink fork (pre
> > V2.00 around 1987) could still be floating around. You know what academics
> > are like with their pet software...
> >
> > > Peter, did you have something to do with this?
> >
> > I know Peter did a GAIA port, I don't think he did anything with DIPSO.
>
> there is a version of our DIPSO working under OS X, but I don't have it.
>
> I remote controlled some chap into adding the few extra dependencies
> beyond those I needed for GAIA and he successfully built it, said it
> worked and that's the last I heard.
>
> If this is important/politic I could try the same technique on Al (this
> would not be using the classic CVS however).
It seems like wasted effort since with CVS and autoconf we're _so_ close
to having the entire SSC build under OSX automagically. But if necessary
it could certainly be done...
Al.
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