> Am I missing something? Yes, alot.. (as I was too!).
Off list I learned that Phil has fink installed. In this case (if his fink installation was up to date) he could install the .deb and rely on fink to install all the necessary updates (either build or binary, depending on the exact dependency, whether his package list or sources.list is up to date). However, I further learned that bill scott is distributing a binary version in the form of .tar.gz . this is a little scary because there's an inherent directory structure in there that I'd have to inspect beforehand and try to duplicate in any binaries I was to send to Phil. (This method is vaguely reminiscent of the Slackware Linux distribution). Either way, since Phil is using .tar.gz binary distribution I'm wary at giving anything to him at risk of bumbling whatever directory structure bill scott has incorporated into his binary packages. What I desire is a Coot OS X bundle (so that it can be distributed as a dmg in which the user drags an icon to the desktop and starts), but my own work on that will have to wait until after I finish my thesis :) F On Oct 31, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote: > Hi Francis, > >> I have 0.7-pre-1-3633 (in a .deb format). Let me know if this interests >> you. > > I'm not sure I understand; what would Phil do with that? Wouldn't he still > need to install Fink to get the dpkg tools and then build the armload of > dependencies in order to install the Coot deb? > > > -b > > -- > | Ben Eisenbraun > | SBGrid Consortium | http://sbgrid.org | > | Harvard Medical School | http://hms.harvard.edu |
