Re: Installer chooser

1999-12-14 Thread Trent Jarvi
I've got a fair amount of 'autobreak' logic in a configure.in script shipped with rxtx if your interested. I would not mind sharing that in hopes of getting away from a few hundred emails a year. > Should I bother mentioning JDK 1.0 ? In my opinion 1.0 is a waste of time. Trent Jarvi [EMAIL PR

Installer chooser

1999-12-14 Thread Dustin Lang
Hi, A little while back I was talking about writing a program to check a user's system and from that information decide what JDK version they should get. I was being stubborn about writing it in C, but I got over that fairly quickly :) I'm now working on a shell script that looks at libc versi

Re: Chooser

1999-01-16 Thread Michael Sinz
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:10:50 -0800 (PST), Dustin Lang wrote: > >Hi, > >I think I'm going to go ahead with trying to write a little C program to >check which library versions a system has and give the user some >suggestion about what JDK file she should download. In order to do this, >I need some

Chooser

1999-01-16 Thread Dustin Lang
Hi, I think I'm going to go ahead with trying to write a little C program to check which library versions a system has and give the user some suggestion about what JDK file she should download. In order to do this, I need some information about where systems keep their libraries and identifying

Re: Do we need an installer-chooser?

1999-01-16 Thread Dustin Lang
Hi, > Why not use a javascript check on the web page, saying here is the > archive for your specific platform? ( In addition to links to the > others if you also grabbing the versions for other platforms. ) The big piece of information we need is (g)libc version. I'd be impressed if there was

Re: Do we need an installer-chooser?

1999-01-16 Thread Justin Lee
Dustin Lang wrote: > > Hi, > > > perhaps if this could be embeded in a web page... an applet? that would > > be cool. > > and unless you plan to compile to all archs maybe a shell script > > would be better? > > Hmm... I was thinking a smallish, statically-linked C program. I hadn't > thought

Re: Do we need an installer-chooser?

1999-01-16 Thread Dustin Lang
Hi, > perhaps if this could be embeded in a web page... an applet? that would > be cool. > and unless you plan to compile to all archs maybe a shell script > would be better? Hmm... I was thinking a smallish, statically-linked C program. I hadn't thought about multiple architectures (I'm a lit

Re: Do we need an installer-chooser?

1999-01-16 Thread Chris Abbey
perhaps if this could be embeded in a web page... an applet? that would be cool. equally interesting would be to do a ping of the mirrors and download from the closest first. and unless you plan to compile to all archs maybe a shell script would be better? if it based all of it's decisions on fi

Do we need an installer-chooser?

1999-01-16 Thread Dustin Lang
Hi, Despite the pretty decent web documentation, this list seems to be inundated with question of the form "I'm running and I'm getting ", or "I have . What file do I need to download?". I was thinking that it should be possible to write a little piece of C code that would check the person'