Hi Mike, As Matt says, it's mostly a matter of somebody deciding they want to take that on. It's unlikely to be any current TPP developer, we're already hands-full.
The working assumption is that windows user are almost certainly not programmers, but linux users are probably at least able to download and build stuff out of previous necessity. If you've spent much time with linux packaging systems you're already aware that it's not a magic bullet - you can get tangled up in the linux equivalent of DLL hell in no time flat and wind up building from source anyway. We do actually link statically to boost, perhaps you are working with some older code? The big problem we experienced with boost packages is that on some distros they're just too out of date. The ProteoWizard library that TPP uses for mzML handling demands a pretty current boost (in some cases even using as-yet-unreleased boost features!), in the end just building it seemed the easiest route. Brian On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Matthew Chambers < matthew.chamb...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: > > If TPP would link to boost statically it wouldn't be an issue. But IIRC > there has been a thread on this topic before and it wasn't deemed worth > the effort of maintaining...unless you're volunteering? ;) > > -Matt > > > Mike Coleman wrote: > > Has there been any thought about packaging up TPP for Ubuntu/Debian > > and possibly RedHat/CentOS? > > > > I went through the exercise of installing it from scratch, following > > the directions on the wiki page, and I can imagine that this would be > > quite daunting for a non-programmer. > > > > Just off the top of my head, it looks like the main problem to solve > > will be that TPP is tending to rely on bleeding-edge versions of the > > Boost libraries. Is there any chance that a change could be made to > > stick with versions that are merely reasonably current (and thus > > packaged)? (Ubuntu Jaunty has 1.37, for example.) > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spctools-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to spctools-discuss@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to spctools-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spctools-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
