all jal addons distribution are hosted in jsoftware download website. commits in github will trigger a webhook to jsoftware website and build an updated zip or tar distribution.
sometimes bug fixes specific for an old j release, so that version of addon is newer than that of more recent j release. On Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 4:43 AM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > I am visiting my sister, who has her own schedule, and in some of the > in-between times, I've got Cliff Reiter's "Fractals Visualization and > J" 4th edition, Part 2 to keep me entertained. > > I've also got the j807 beta from a week or so ago installed on this > machine, and the required addons aren't available yet for this version > of J. > > The smart thing to do would be to install j804 or j805. Generally > speaking if you're going to get anything practical done with external > interfaces (including graphics coding), you're going to be working > with back versions of software. Arbitrary people like deprecating > interfaces for arbitrary reasons which means that if you're on the > "current version" interfaces tend to stop working, arbitrarily. > > But I'm not all that great at choosing the smart option, so I'm trying > to figure out how to get Cliff's stuff working under j807. > > Looking closer, ... we're in the process of moving the j addons over > to github, but the current release still pulls them from > http://www.jsoftware.com/jal/ > > There's a j804 and a j805 directory there, and in this context there > seems no reason to prefer one over the other. Also, I'm on osx > (darwin) so I'll focus on those instances of the packages for now. > > This means the working versions of the packages are: > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jal/j805/addons/media_imagekit_1.0.7_darwin.tar.gz > http://www.jsoftware.com/jal/j805/addons/graphics_fvj4_1.0.17_darwin.tar.gz > > Interestingly, j806 drops back to version 1.0.6 of the imagekit addon, > for whatever reason. > > Anyways, j807, which is what I'm using, doesn't have the imagekit > addon at all. It does seem to have the same graphics_fvj4, and: > > Updating server catalog... > Done. > Installing 1 package of size 1.7 MB > Downloading graphics/fvj4... > Installing graphics/fvj4... > Done. > > ... it seems to be installed, but: > > load'graphics/fvj4' > not found: /users/rauldmiller/j64-807/addons/graphics/fvj4/fvj4.ijs > |file name error: script > | 0!:0 y[4!:55<'y' > > ... apparently, it's not that kind of package. > > And, for media_imagekit, I pulled down a copy of the > media_imagekit_1.0.7_darwin.tar.gz file and unpacked it in my > j64-807/addons directory, And... so far, it seems to work. > > So, anyways, maybe the j805 media_imagekit files could be included in > the j807 jal repository? There might be problems, but I imagine that > we can work through them... > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
