Is it really necessary to have the distribution in one stream? As I see it there are three different gui front end that share one common engine. a) the old trusted gui b) the new gtk c) the new jhs
For a user they are vastly different. The console may be the same for all three. I see no disadvantage in downloading them separately. Possibly download the console and engine as one and choose one or all of the three three gui addons. 2010/5/19 Eric Iverson <[email protected]>: > Short answer is no. This is beta and the final J7 release will be different > in some significant ways. Right now there are 2 separate beta streams: JHS > and GTK. These need to be merged together and doing that will result in some > significant changes. If the current chaos is too much, it might be better to > wait a bit. > > The big differences between the JHS and GTK streams: > 1. JHS is packaged similar to J602 and the way the final J7 release will be > packaged. > 2. GTK is packaged as zip files and has some hardwired install assumptions > 3. JHS has essentially j602 libraries with just the new JHS stuff tacked on > 4. GTK has new library organization/project-manager/jal > > There will probably be at least 1 more cycle with releases in the 2 streams > before they are merged. > > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Do the beta zip files at [1] contain the latest of everything? That is, the >> J7 engine/dll, JHS, GTK, scripts, help? Basically, are >> the zip files more or less what J7 will "look like"? >> >> Also, I don't want to install J7 on my disk root. Are the hurdles to >> installing it in Program Files so large right now that I'd be >> better off waiting for a later release? >> >> I saw some mention of a 64-bit build. I have a 64-bit Windows 7 machine at >> home. Is there a native build for that, or should I >> just use the 32-bit Windows build? >> >> -Dan >> >> [1] http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Beta/Gtk%20IDE >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði, t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 sími: +3544781286 http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
