This is automated? So you are saying that if an old version of an addon had a problem that a newer version did not have, and someone releases a fix for the old one, this effectively roll back other changes in the released addon?
(I'm trying to understand what you have told me.) Thanks, -- Raul On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 7:18 PM bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > > all jal addons distribution are hosted in jsoftware download website. > commits in github will trigger a webhook to jsoftware website and build an > updated zip or tar distribution. > > sometimes bug fixes specific for an old j release, so that version of addon > is newer than that of more recent j release. > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 4:43 AM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am visiting my sister, who has her own schedule, and in some of the > > in-between times, I've got Cliff Reiter's "Fractals Visualization and > > J" 4th edition, Part 2 to keep me entertained. > > > > I've also got the j807 beta from a week or so ago installed on this > > machine, and the required addons aren't available yet for this version > > of J. > > > > The smart thing to do would be to install j804 or j805. Generally > > speaking if you're going to get anything practical done with external > > interfaces (including graphics coding), you're going to be working > > with back versions of software. Arbitrary people like deprecating > > interfaces for arbitrary reasons which means that if you're on the > > "current version" interfaces tend to stop working, arbitrarily. > > > > But I'm not all that great at choosing the smart option, so I'm trying > > to figure out how to get Cliff's stuff working under j807. > > > > Looking closer, ... we're in the process of moving the j addons over > > to github, but the current release still pulls them from > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jal/ > > > > There's a j804 and a j805 directory there, and in this context there > > seems no reason to prefer one over the other. Also, I'm on osx > > (darwin) so I'll focus on those instances of the packages for now. > > > > This means the working versions of the packages are: > > > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jal/j805/addons/media_imagekit_1.0.7_darwin.tar.gz > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jal/j805/addons/graphics_fvj4_1.0.17_darwin.tar.gz > > > > Interestingly, j806 drops back to version 1.0.6 of the imagekit addon, > > for whatever reason. > > > > Anyways, j807, which is what I'm using, doesn't have the imagekit > > addon at all. It does seem to have the same graphics_fvj4, and: > > > > Updating server catalog... > > Done. > > Installing 1 package of size 1.7 MB > > Downloading graphics/fvj4... > > Installing graphics/fvj4... > > Done. > > > > ... it seems to be installed, but: > > > > load'graphics/fvj4' > > not found: /users/rauldmiller/j64-807/addons/graphics/fvj4/fvj4.ijs > > |file name error: script > > | 0!:0 y[4!:55<'y' > > > > ... apparently, it's not that kind of package. > > > > And, for media_imagekit, I pulled down a copy of the > > media_imagekit_1.0.7_darwin.tar.gz file and unpacked it in my > > j64-807/addons directory, And... so far, it seems to work. > > > > So, anyways, maybe the j805 media_imagekit files could be included in > > the j807 jal repository? There might be problems, but I imagine that > > we can work through them... > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Raul > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
