Re: [Avogadro-devel] Fwd: A final 1.2 Windows binary?

Thank you, Marcus. It looks as though it is indeed an SSL issue, and it appears as though I'm getting close to solving the problem. I got it to work on my own personal computer - which is good. However, I haven't gotten it to work on other computers as of yet. I compiled OpenSSL, and I recompiled

Re: [Avogadro-devel] Avo2 - Downloading from GitHub

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Geoffrey Hutchison wrote: >> GNU Octave can download and compile its C++ packages automatically. >> Perhaps it can serve as an example? > > My concern is this requires a C++ compiler from the end-user. On Mac and > Windows in particular,

Re: [Avogadro-devel] Avo2 - Downloading from GitHub

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Geoffrey Hutchison wrote: >> I wonder if we might either use the GitHub APIs > > We can definitely use the GitHub API via HTTP. The catch is this ties us to > GitHub a bit more, while using Git directly makes it easier to point at >

Re: [Avogadro-devel] Avo2 - Downloading from GitHub

> I wonder if we might either use the GitHub APIs We can definitely use the GitHub API via HTTP. The catch is this ties us to GitHub a bit more, while using Git directly makes it easier to point at multiple repositories. It's pretty easy to walk the JSON from the API, e.g.

Re: [Avogadro-devel] Avo2 - Downloading from GitHub

> GNU Octave can download and compile its C++ packages automatically. > Perhaps it can serve as an example? My concern is this requires a C++ compiler from the end-user. On Mac and Windows in particular, that’s not very common. Moreover, while we've offered nice C++ APIs for Avo1, I think the

Re: [Avogadro-devel] Avo2 - Downloading from GitHub

On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 16:15:40 -0400 Geoffrey Hutchison wrote: > The problem, of course, was that compiled C++ is hard to distribute > in a cross-platform way. GNU Octave can download and compile its C++ packages automatically. Perhaps it can serve as an example? Regards Jure