Andrew, do you have plan to write a README for the examples folder? Raniere
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Andrew Makhorin <[email protected]> wrote: > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: robin hankin <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: read.me > Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:26:28 +1300 > > Hello. glpk is awesome; keep it up! > > There is no "read.me" file in the examples section, and I wasted quite > a long time fiddling about > getting the examples to work [I am a mathematician but not a programmer] > > It is not immediately obvious how to run sudoku.mod, for example. A > short sentence or two > in a read.me file would have saved me a lot of googling and frustration. > > How about this for a first suggestion: > > <suggested file contents> > > To run these examples, you need to install the package (see the INSTALL > file), > then type > > "glpsol -m sudoku.mod" > > on the command line. You may find that installing with > > "./configure --disable-shared ; make; sudo make install" > > avoids some commonly-encountered errors. > > > </suggested file contents> > > OK, I know that this might look blindingly obvious; but it wasn't > obvious to me earlier today. > > best wishes > > > > -- > Robin Hankin > Uncertainty Analyst > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-glpk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-glpk _______________________________________________ Help-glpk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-glpk
