[opendx-dev] Distribution idea/question

[Alan Ferrenberg]

Hi all,     Now that things are getting stable and 4.1 is just around the corner (yea!), I'm getting ready to start distributing OpenDX to researchers on our campus.  One thing I've noticed is that the UNIX distributions available are all .tar.gz files (except for Suhaib's Linux rpm's).  This works fine for development and testing, or even for a single-user, but for our case it's a support nightmare.  What I've been working on (and would be happy to upload when 4.1 is ready) is an SGI inst/tardist package along with tardist packages of up-to-date versions of HDF, netcdf, cdf, ImageMagick etc.  If someone building for AIX were interested in building LPP packages of OpenDX +aux. packages and made those available for download it would help out immensely.  I know that this isn't "development" per se, but I just wanted to see if I'm off in left field on this or not.   ********************************************************************* Alan M. Ferrenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Manager, Research and Computational Science Support UGA Computing and Networking Services   Get the latest information from UCNS!  Subscribe to our weekly e-mail publication "UCNS Weekly News".  For more information, check out:   http://www.uga.edu/ucns/consult/casnews/   *********************************************************************