On Jan 2, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote:

> On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:53 PM, William Stein wrote:
>
>> On Jan 2, 2008 4:12 PM, Robert Bradshaw
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Ted Kosan wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have jmol building/installing from source,
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>> but in the interest of
>>>> saving time I am not going to go through the last step of making an
>>>> actual spkg out of it because I have not done this before and it
>>>> will
>>>> probably take me some time for me to get it right.
>>>
>>> It's actually even easier than creating a zip file. Just do
>>>
>>> sage -spkg folder_with_stuff
>>
>> I think the command is (stupidly?)
>>
>>    sage -pkg folder_with_stuff
>
> Hmm... they both work I guess.
>
>> By the way, the source version of the package should be something
>> that can just be dropped in and it should _not_ contain any of the
>> binary jar's.   Imagine a paranoid person who builds everything from
>> source -- they remove any binaries from Sage, scan all the sources,
>> then build everything, even their toolchain.
>>
>> I think if you call folder_with_stuff
>>
>>          jmol-11.5.1.src
>>
>> then make it an spkg  jmol-11.5.1.src.spkg
>> then it will be a 100% drop-in replacement for mol-11.5.1.spkg.
>>
>> I'll make it available as an optional spkg download and put a note
>> about
>> it on the main source download page.
>
> I'll finish this up (cleaning out all the binaries, etc) and post it.
> It should be way smaller too.

There are several other dependancies that are provided as jar files  
that we'll need to build as well, so this is further from done than I  
had supposed.

- Robert


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