My question was rhetorical. At least I hoped it was, and I wasn't overlooking something. In fact I'm sorry I asked it -- at least in this forum and not in Chat as I was going to.
Speaking for myself I'd have no problem building a standalone app for either Mac or Windows that used J "under the covers". Even if I couldn't, I'm not sure it would bother me that much -- there are plenty of ways round. But Wikipedia is a shop-window, often a one-stop shop, when it comes to IT professionals or educated laypersons trying to find out more about a language or software product they've heard about. I'm simply concerned to get the story right. As I see it, the box in the table under consideration tries to answer the question: what sort of support does J give for building a recognisably professional application for sale or distribution? AFAICS the correct answer in the light of posts on this thread is: vestigial. Dose anyone disagree? There is little scope provided to answer further questions like "So What?" or "Does it matter to you?" or "How do we fix it?". Though there *is* scope for a brief comment or a pertinent link. On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Björn Helgason <[email protected]> wrote: > It should be easy enough to let some compiler create a .exe file which > could call j.exe and some script(s) like you do in a .bat file and the like > depending on the environment. > > In linus this is less of an issue. > > I agree with you that it would be good to have a button to press that could > create a .bat and possibly .exe with the text t.exe script > > I am not sure if it is less of an issue now or not. > > 2012/12/23 Ian Clark <[email protected]> > >> Terminological confusion...? >> >> By "standalone executable" it would seem the article means .exe or >> .com in Windows, .app in MacOS. Not an all-in-one .ijs file that needs >> j.exe (say) to run it. >> >> In the column titled: "standalone executables creation support", the >> word "executables" is a link to the article: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable >> which makes it clear what is meant. >> >> Is there a button you can click and a standalone .app (or .exe) gets >> generated -- as is the case with VB, say? I've not come across one in >> JGTK. >> >> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 2:35 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I don't think that is true in that no one can stop you from create a >> > standalone script in j701. Please see felidae3 demo as an example. >> > >> > ~addons/demos/gtk/felidae3/source/build.ijs >> > >> > Вск, 23 Дек 2012, Ian Clark писал(а): >> >> Can J be said to have "standalone executables creation support"? >> >> >> >> Wikipedia uncompromisingly states No... >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_numerical_analysis_software >> >> >> >> AFAIK this is true of J7 (which strictly speaking is what the >> >> Wilipedia entry is confined to). But J602 supports their creation, via >> >> Project Manager. Are we to say that support has officially been >> >> withdrawn in J701? >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > >> > -- >> > regards, >> > ==================================================== >> > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 >> > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > > > -- > Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur > Fornustekkum II > 781 Hornafirði, > t-póst: [email protected] > gsm: +3546985532 > twitter: @flugfiskur > http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming > > > Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans > > góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum > /|_ .-----------------------------------. > ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | > ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | > / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | > ( -. | `-----------------------------------' > | ) | (\_ _/) > (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ > `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
