Document Update Instructions have been revised
John Ralls
jralls at ceridwen.us
Wed Jan 25 22:26:41 EST 2017
> On Jan 25, 2017, at 6:53 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 26, 2017, at 6:57 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 25, 2017, at 5:09 PM, Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au <mailto:chris.good at ozemail.com.au>> wrote:
>>>
>>> David,
>>>
>>> I don't remember seeing a response from you about if Mac OSX has 'make' by
>>> default. Did I miss something? I don't want to hassle you - I see you have
>>> been quite busy :-).
>>
>> Chris,
>>
>> Translation isn't the same between the program and documentation: Only the Italian documentation translations (i.e. help and the guide) use po files. The other translations are rewrites of the documentation in their respective languages.
>>
>> MacOS does provide make, but only if you install Xcode or the Xcode "command-line tools". If the latter aren't installed trying to use any of the tools, including make, will result in a dialog box offering to install them for you.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>
> I will only add to John’s comments to note that Xcode is in my experience not a normal, average Mac user piece of software—and that the latest version weighs in at 4.5Gb, which can be a bear to get if your connection is slow or hinky.
Indeed. But you don't need all of it, just the command-line tools.
Regards,
John Ralls
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