Yorick on MacOsX

Available packages

These OsX packages should run on 10.6 and 10.7 (untested in 10.5 but might work). They contain yorick-2.2 as well as a number of plugins. Included plugins are yutils, imutil, yao, yeti, yeti_regex, soy, hdf5, ml4, spydr, mpeg, z, opra, svipc and usleep.

Beware! These will not run on Mountain Lion (10.8), because of a change in the freetype APIs (xft). You can still run them but without font antialiasing in the graphics (set xft off by typing xft,0 before creating any window, or include that in your custom.i).

For a version fixed to run on 10.8, use yorick-2.2_mountain_lion.tgz. Note that because Apple is making it difficult to now create packages, I don't have a installer for it. You will just have to untar the file somewhere (say your home directory) and add $HOME/yorick-2.2/bin to your PATH, e.g. in your .profile:

export PATH=/Users/frigaut/yorick-2.2/bin:${PATH}

Dependencies

There are no dependency to run the vanilla yorick & plugins. The external libraries needed by some plugins have been included in this package (e.g. fftw3 or hdf5 which have been linked statically, thus the size of this package). However, some plugins use GUIs that are implemented in pygtk, and as such require python2.7 (to date, october 2011), gtk and pygtk. You can install these packages with e.g. macport: [sudo] port install py-pygtk