Michael Goffioul wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:49 PM, dbateman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Or adding the ATLAS binaries to every released binary directly. Like >> "OCTAVE FORGE WINDOWS MINGW32" >> <Octave n.n.n for WIndows/mingw32> - 2008-mm-dd >> - a-binary-file-of-octave >> - a-different-file-maybe-installer-or-other-zip-format-binary >> - ATLAS-binary-ARCH_1 >> - ATLAS-binary-ARCH_2 >> - ATLAS-binary-ARCH_3 >> ... >> >> Comments? >> >> >> NSI and a bit of help from Michael :-) In any case I'm not sure you need >> all of those ATLAS libraries. I'd probably only keep SSE2 and perhaps SSE3 >> libraries as most machines support that and use generic blas for the rest. > > My opinion is that you should put yourself in the place of a Joe user > that wants to install your package. It's not user-friendly at all to tell > him "you need to download package A; if you want feature B, you'll > also need to download package C and D; depending on your CPU > (see page E to find out your CPU architecture), you can also > download packages F1, F2 or F3, but package F1 is also compatible > with architecture F3; Oh, and by the way, you can also use the > package G, which is the same as package A, but includes F1". > > OK, I'm exaggerating a little bit, but you get the point. A normal > user doesn't want to deal with that. That's why I'm playing with > installers, even with simple add-ons. >
I get your point, but I am personally not one of those users, and something which annoys me every time is when I have to install a program which simply does not need to be installed (in the windows-meaning of installation), since it's "installation process" mereley requires unpacking something into a directory. Since Octave does not require anything else than unpacking it (no shell extensions, no registry access, no driver installations, ...), well an installer is nice (I agree) but not essential for usage of the program. So I'd like to provide also simply a zipped archive of the binary along with an installer version. The binary structure IS simple - one octave binary and one (optional) atlas binary. I agree that choosing the correct architecture requires some thinking, but then if you don't want to think, you can use the installer version, anyway. benjamin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
