Errr. This is what I did to use J in my work. 1. Make a .NET wrapper. 2. Compile/build the script in J using the Project Manager to create an .IJS file that is self contained/stand alone. 3. Distribute application to user with the .NET application, .NET wrapper, J.EXE, J.DLL and the IJS file (minimum of 5 files).
I stared doing this with VB6 and the concept is still the same with C#. So my design has always been J runtime on the user/client machine and FULL J install in the server. Bloat is relative. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of bill lam Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] How to make J applications user-friendly for endusers? On Mon, 09 Feb 2009, Raul Miller wrote: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:03 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 09 Feb 2009, Devon McCormick wrote: > >> Why not install J and run your scripts as you would do with many other > >> packages? > > > > Current J package is bloated if intended for runtime support. Many > > other packages divide it into 3 separated packages: runtime, > > documentation and development. > > This might be true in a relative sense, but I do not think that > this is valid in an absolute sense. > > J is a tiny fraction of the size of even the oldest versions of > the .Net framework runtime, for example. Very true. However everything is tiny compared to .net or java; Everything is bloated compared with k/q. A more relevant question is why should those extra J html documentation and J IDE scripts be interested to non-programmer end users. -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 唐詩288 朱慶餘 近試上張水部 洞房昨夜停紅燭 待曉堂前拜舅姑 妝罷低聲問夫婿 畫眉深淺入時無 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
