In comp.soft-sys.ptolemy, Marco Antoniotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Christopher Hylands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The version of Installshield's installer that was used with > > Ptplot5.1p1 does not work with JDK1.4. Basically, their product has a > > significant design flaw that prevents it from working with JVMS that > > are not known at the time the installer is built. > > Thanks. That explains it. > > > Either use JDK1.3, or download the source tar file which includes > > the jar files and run it by hand. > > Ok. Could you please remove the InstallShield version from your site > then? > > JVM 1.4 is now pretty widespread, and my inability to install PtPlot > 5.1 promptly (meaning, in 3 minutes) on a particular machine has > caused a lot of harm to my project. > > Thanks > > -- > Marco Antoniotti ======================================================== > NYU Courant Bioinformatics Group tel. +1 - 212 - 998 3488 > 719 Broadway 12th Floor fax +1 - 212 - 995 4122 > New York, NY 10003, USA http://bioinformatics.cat.nyu.edu > "Hello New York! We'll do what we can!" > Bill Murray in `Ghostbusters'. I was waiting to update the instructions because I thought that my time would be better spent getting an updated installer out the door, but it seems like I'm still a few weeks away from getting the installer ready, so I went ahead and updated the page. I did find a fairly simple workaround: Another workaround is to extract the files in the setup.exe file: ./ptplot5_1p1setup.exe -is:extract Then run java -jar ptplot5_1p1setup.jar -Christopher ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted to the ptolemy-hackers mailing list. Please send administrative mail for this list to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
