Just a reminder, Mike's main complain-- the dependency on specific versions of boost, which are often maintained differently for each distribution-- was remedied in the current TPP series (4.3), which contains a copy of boost source code and transparently builds the relevant necessary components during the TPP build process.
-Natalie On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Brian Pratt <brian.pr...@insilicos.com>wrote: > 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 they're just too out of date.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
