Hi Alan,
>
> I trust your judgement about what seems normal in the Windows
> culture, but
> in my opinion that culture has to change if free software is ever to
> get
> anywhere in the Windows world since the "complete" packages are much
> larger than the have to be.
>
> I guess the only way t
On 2009-07-24 08:49, Werner Smekal wrote:
> Hi Hazen,
>
>
> I'm actually "working" on this and already have something which provides
> the basic PLplot package. Adding other stuff gets then more and more
> "problematic". On one side is the size a problem. Putting QT and
> wxWidgets library int
Hazen Babcock wrote:
> I'd like to start offering a Windows binary and/or an installer along
> with our source releases. I now have access to a Windows box which I can
> put pretty much anything on to, i.e. Qt, WxWidgets, Cairo(?), etc... so
> I'm volunteering myself to generate whatever binarie
On 2009-07-26 10:10+0200 Werner Smekal wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>>
>> Hazen, I would advise avoiding all that pain by sticking with just
>> distributing a binary version of PLplot without the external dependencies.
>
> Nope, not a good idea. Although most dlls are loaded on demand (with the
> driver dl
Hi Alan,
>
> Hazen, I would advise avoiding all that pain by sticking with just
> distributing a binary version of PLplot without the external
> dependencies.
Nope, not a good idea. Although most dlls are loaded on demand (with
the driver dll) it's just not the way a Windows user wants to have
On 2009-07-25 13:15-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> I wonder if this factor of 10 size difference between the two 64-bit
> versions on my machine is due to the system one being stripped and
> the downloaded one not being stripped?
As an experiment I tried the following:
ir...@raven> strip -o /tmp/gu
On 2009-07-25 20:14+0100 Steve Schwartz wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
>> Here are the sizes of those four libraries (as given by ls -lh).
>>
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 software software 20M 2009-04-23 09:34 libQtCore.so.4.5.1
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 software software 95M 2009-04-23 09:34 libQtGui.so.4.5.1
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 so
Hi Alan,
> Here are the sizes of those four libraries (as given by ls -lh).
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 software software 20M 2009-04-23 09:34 libQtCore.so.4.5.1
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 software software 95M 2009-04-23 09:34 libQtGui.so.4.5.1
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 software software 3.9M 2009-04-23 09:34 libQtSvg.so.4.5.1
Hi Steve:
The first part of this responds to your suggestion, but I also have
a response to Werner's suggestion at the end.
On 2009-07-25 12:02+0100 Steve Schwartz wrote:
> I think I saw a comment under this thread that shipping the Qt libraries
> to make a self-contained windows installation wo
I think I saw a comment under this thread that shipping the Qt libraries
to make a self-contained windows installation would be excessively large
(350 MB from my memory). This probably is far more than is necessary
simply to use the qt devices. We ship binaries of our QSAS application
for windows w
>> Hi Hazen,
>> zip all of them are easy to install.
>
> My preference would be some sort of pre-compiled binary, basically a
> zip of c:\program files\plplot, which I think is what Alan was
> discussing with cpack. Someone who already knows that they want to
> use PLplot is probably willin
Hi Hazen,
> I was thinking of just providing the relevant PLplot dlls for working
> with Qt, etc, rather than actually including Qt, etc, in our
> distribution. I don't think this is totally orthogonal to typical
> Windows style as programs like PyQt do not come with Python. The user
> would be re
On 2009-07-24 15:25-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote:
> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> Also note that my new CMake-based build system for the installed examples
>> _should_ work on Windows (unlike the traditional Makefile+pkg-config
>> approach) so it should be quite useful for Windows users of your planned
>> b
Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2009-07-23 20:06-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote:
>
>>
>> I'd like to start offering a Windows binary and/or an installer along
>> with our source releases. I now have access to a Windows box which I can
>> put pretty much anything on to, i.e. Qt, WxWidgets, Cairo(?), etc... so
Werner Smekal wrote:
> Hi Hazen,
>
> On 24.07.2009, at 02:06, Hazen Babcock wrote:
>
>>
>> I'd like to start offering a Windows binary and/or an installer along
>> with our source releases. I now have access to a Windows box which I can
>> put pretty much anything on to, i.e. Qt, WxWidgets, Cairo
On 2009-07-23 20:06-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote:
>
> I'd like to start offering a Windows binary and/or an installer along
> with our source releases. I now have access to a Windows box which I can
> put pretty much anything on to, i.e. Qt, WxWidgets, Cairo(?), etc... so
> I'm volunteering myself to
Hi Hazen,
On 24.07.2009, at 02:06, Hazen Babcock wrote:
I'd like to start offering a Windows binary and/or an installer along
with our source releases. I now have access to a Windows box which I
can
put pretty much anything on to, i.e. Qt, WxWidgets, Cairo(?), etc...
so
I'm volunteering m
I'd like to start offering a Windows binary and/or an installer along
with our source releases. I now have access to a Windows box which I can
put pretty much anything on to, i.e. Qt, WxWidgets, Cairo(?), etc... so
I'm volunteering myself to generate whatever binaries needs to be
generated to
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