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packaging gnuplot with a MacOSX application, help?

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Curious if anyone has a helpful tip.  I help maintain an open source
data analysis tool called CMPR, which is archaically written in Tcl.
The downer is that plot outputs from Tcl graphs in Blt have very low
capabilities.  CMPR is available on Win/Mac/Linux, and with Win and
Linux, I'm using gnuplot to produce the output.  For Linux, I assume
people know what they are doing, and installing gnuplot is simply a
matter of a repository install.  For Windows and Mac, I don't make any
assumptions, and I've packaged gnuplot into the Windows CMPR
distribution, so the user can just hit a button, and everything
happens invisibly, and voila, you get a pretty plot.  Because of the
way Windows has been set up, this currently works on XP up through 7,
which is nice.

Can anyone tell me if this bundling is also possible on a Mac, such
that the gnuplot executables will be fairly independent of the version
of OSX being using.  For example, executables that will work on 10.4
up through 10.7,8,9 (hopefully), and can be packaged in as command
line tools for another program?

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packaging gnuplot with a MacOSX application, help? Vince <barelytone@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 05:19 -0700

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