We concluded something similar to this at an NYCJUG meeting where we discussed this topic but I can't find which meeting this was on the Wiki (I may not have written it up).
It is tempting, because the J executable is relatively small, to hope for a way to package some scripts together with the executable as a single file. However, the J installation is quick and easy and now it looks like any other (Windows) application so this really shouldn't be a problem. The add-ons are more substantial but package manager seems to work well for these. More and more, I'm convinced that part of what the APL/J community needs to do is to push back against "time-honored" conventions and re-frame these discussions in a more sensible fashion that doesn't leave us playing catch up. On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:39 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > To be fair to J, most script languages including java do not deploy > applications as exe files. Runtimes are expected to be installed > beforehand. The real issue is whether those runtimes are free or not. > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > 唐詩272 韋應物 滁州西澗 > 獨憐幽草澗邊生 上有黃鸝深樹鳴 春潮帶雨晚來急 野渡無人舟自橫 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
