Re: OpenBUGS program has a pre-compiled )S library from MS Windows. Any possibility to package it?

2011-08-27 Thread Jonathan Underwood
On 26 August 2011 19:50, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > On 08/26/2011 12:13 PM, Michael Ekstrand wrote: >> 3. cp-dev seems to not only use Black Box to bootstrap, but it also >> seems to use Black Box sources as a part of itself.  I have not yet >> investigated whether this is true and, if true, how th

Re: OpenBUGS program has a pre-compiled )S library from MS Windows. Any possibility to package it?

2011-08-26 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 08/26/2011 12:13 PM, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > 3. cp-dev seems to not only use Black Box to bootstrap, but it also > seems to use Black Box sources as a part of itself. I have not yet > investigated whether this is true and, if true, how the relevant sources > are licensed. BlackBox Component

Re: OpenBUGS program has a pre-compiled )S library from MS Windows. Any possibility to package it?

2011-08-26 Thread Michael Ekstrand
On 06/14/2011 07:41 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > PS: > > Paul Johnson wrote: >> I was wondering if there could be an exception here, since the code is >> actually available and open. > > Have you even looked at that "source code"? I just have: > > 1. They refer to the Window$ download for the code.

Re: OpenBUGS program has a pre-compiled )S library from MS Windows. Any possibility to package it?

2011-06-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:34:46AM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> In this case, the most obvious candidates would probably be > >> FreePascal/Lazarus and GPC, but porting to a completely different, more > >> commonly u

Re: OpenBUGS program has a pre-compiled )S library from MS Windows. Any possibility to package it?

2011-06-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: >> In this case, the most obvious candidates would probably be >> FreePascal/Lazarus and GPC, but porting to a completely different, more >> commonly used language (I'd suggest C++) might also be worth considering >> for up

Re: OpenBUGS program has a pre-compiled )S library from MS Windows. Any possibility to package it?

2011-06-14 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Kofler wrote: > In this case, the most obvious candidates would probably be > FreePascal/Lazarus and GPC, but porting to a completely different, more > commonly used language (I'd suggest C++) might also be worth considering > for upstream (depending on how hard it is to port to a Free Pascal

Re: OpenBUGS program has a pre-compiled )S library from MS Windows. Any possibility to package it?

2011-06-14 Thread Kevin Kofler
PS: Paul Johnson wrote: > I was wondering if there could be an exception here, since the code is > actually available and open. Have you even looked at that "source code"? I just have: 1. They refer to the Window$ download for the code. That's a .EXE file created with some proprietary installer

Re: OpenBUGS program has a pre-compiled )S library from MS Windows. Any possibility to package it?

2011-06-14 Thread Kevin Kofler
Paul Johnson wrote: > First, the (now open) code for OpenBugs is written in Object Pascal > and it requires a compiler framework called "Black Box" which is, as > far as I can understand, available only for MS Windows. The OpenBUGS > team compiles that library, and then for linux we use some acces

Re: OpenBUGS program has a pre-compiled )S library from MS Windows. Any possibility to package it?

2011-06-14 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:54 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: > > I decided to try to help the cause of Bayesian statistics and the open > > source effort of the OpenBUGS group (http://www.openbugs.info/w/) by > > making some packages. In case you are not a statistically-inclined > > person, it is worth kn

Re: OpenBUGS program has a pre-compiled )S library from MS Windows. Any possibility to package it?

2011-06-14 Thread Jon Ciesla
> I decided to try to help the cause of Bayesian statistics and the open > source effort of the OpenBUGS group (http://www.openbugs.info/w/) by > making some packages. In case you are not a statistically-inclined > person, it is worth knowing that Bayesian Updating with Gibbs Sampling > (BUGS) ha

OpenBUGS program has a pre-compiled )S library from MS Windows. Any possibility to package it?

2011-06-14 Thread Paul Johnson
I decided to try to help the cause of Bayesian statistics and the open source effort of the OpenBUGS group (http://www.openbugs.info/w/) by making some packages. In case you are not a statistically-inclined person, it is worth knowing that Bayesian Updating with Gibbs Sampling (BUGS) has caused so