On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > The point I am trying to make is that I am suggesting the BO try to make it > easy for chemists, not Linux / Ubuntu / Debian experts,
Apt-get is a package management system. It takes care of dependencies. Together with rpm and the gentoo packaging systems it defines the Open Standards to solve the compile issues you describe. If your systems does not previde precompiled packages (most Linux distributions have GUIs for their package management systems), another such standard is Make, together with AutoConfig (?) which allows one to do: $ ./configure $ make $ make install Again, these are very old Open Standards. Systems using this standard will make things compile nicely. Funnily, the Ant community never got around to define such standards. > to run a small > number of Open programs. I don't want to compile them, only run them. I know > what the programs do. I do not know and I don't want to know what the > compilers do. Is there a way the BO can help? This is why I mentioned earlier in this thread, and several times in the past, that it is important that BO tools get adopted by (Linux) distributions (I am not aware of such a Open Standard for packaging for MS-Windows)... packagers from projects that do have such a standard, know how to get your program X to follow one or more of the above sketched standards... Egon -- Post-doc @ Uppsala University Proteochemometrics / Bioclipse Group of Prof. Jarl Wikberg Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
