Hi Mark,
On 08/14/2012 09:10 AM, Mark Miesfeld wrote:
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Jeff Fearn<[email protected]> wrote:
On 08/14/2012 12:31 AM, Mark Miesfeld wrote:
One of the things that interested me about publican was the presence
of a Windows installer. It would be convenient for me to be able to
work on Windows, rather than having to boot into a Linux system
whenever I needed to work on our documentation.
But, when I installed publican, I see that the publican.exe is dated
2009.
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/p/u/publican/Publican-Installer-2.3.exe is
from Nov 2010.
Thanks for the reply. Sorry about that. I saw that when I went back
to look more closely. I think I had just assumed that
Publican-installer.exe was the latest version.
And it won't run on my Windows 7 system.
Can you tell us why?
It was missing a MsCRT DLL. But I ran the 2.3 installer and saw the
missing DLL was included. So that is probably fixed.
Unfortunately, the Publican-Installer-2.3.exe tries to download some
ImageMagic files during the install and for whatever reason the
estimated time to finish was over an hour. I was too impatient and
quit. I'll try again later tonight.
FYI this has been removed for 3.0.
So, I'm guessing there is really not much support for running publican
on Windows. Is that true, or am I missing something?
It's quite an effort to get it working and we receive very little feed back
about it so it's not a priority. Publican 3.0 is around the corner and I do
hope to have a Windows installer for that. I have access to Vista and Win7
so hopefully I can get it working on both.
Is it just the installer you are having problems with, or is it the
Windows .exe itself?
The installer is easy, it uses NSIS, but making a perl program in to a
standalone exe is a tricky process and it can get frustrating.
I have recently switched from using Active State Perl to using
Strawberry Perl ... we'll soon see if that is easier or not :)
Thanks again for the reply. It is good to know that there will at
least an effort to get 3.0 working on Windows. I thought maybe the
Windows effort was abandoned.
Not abandoned ... just under appreciated ;)
Cheers, Jeff.
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Jeff Fearn <[email protected]>
Acting Supervisor
Infrastructure Engineering & Development (AEU)
Red Hat Asia Pacific Pty Ltd
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