Just a suggestion. I understand this is an open source software under a "free" license. I would be nice if you could provide a source package release too. This will allow package maintainers of various linux distributions to package SBW and follow you releases. Almost all linux distributions shun the use of binary releases for their official packages.
I am aware one can obtain the source from CVS, nevertheless and official source release, preferably with somekind of Makefile/Autoconf/Automake/libtool build system would be very useful indeed.
Prebuilt packages for say debian or redhat will make it extreemly easy for users to install SBW.
sincerely
Thomas
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I agree that what you suggest would be very useful, it all depends on how much time we have, like many open source projects we have only limited resources. Supporting Windows is straightforward but Linux requires more effort to support, we hoped that the Linux open source community would chip in but this hasn't happened. For now I think Frank does it case by case for those interested in Linux which have only been a handfull at most to date. To be honest we've had little interest from the Linux community, the bulk of the user base is Windows. This is not to say that this couldn't change in the future.
Herbert Sauro
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Actually there is a simple solution for this matter.
Instead of source packages you could use "checkinstall" package that allows a person to produce
rpm, deb and tar.gz (for slackware) packages.
I used this to install SBW in Debian. Unfortunately, there s a catch... there isn't dependency treatment.
The commands are straitforward:
./configure [insert options here]
make
checkinstall option (instead of make install)
Sorry for not being more specific but I'm in Windows rigth now since JDesigner only works there. :(
If you need more help let me now at pamm_at_student_dot_dei_dot_uc_dot_pt
but I'm really new to SBW.
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Sorry.
I was to quick to answer.
The install I mencioned, used libsbml source , since I cound find SBW's.
In spite of that, my comment remains valid. It's a quick way to create packages.
Alexandre Martins
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Hi,
Just a suggestion. I understand this is an open source software under a "free" license. I would be nice if you could provide a source package release too. This will allow package maintainers of various linux distributions to package SBW and follow you releases. Almost all linux distributions shun the use of binary releases for their official packages.
I am aware one can obtain the source from CVS, nevertheless and official source release, preferably with somekind of Makefile/Autoconf/Automake/libtool build system would be very useful indeed.
Prebuilt packages for say debian or redhat will make it extreemly easy for users to install SBW.
sincerely
Thomas
I agree that what you suggest would be very useful, it all depends on how much time we have, like many open source projects we have only limited resources. Supporting Windows is straightforward but Linux requires more effort to support, we hoped that the Linux open source community would chip in but this hasn't happened. For now I think Frank does it case by case for those interested in Linux which have only been a handfull at most to date. To be honest we've had little interest from the Linux community, the bulk of the user base is Windows. This is not to say that this couldn't change in the future.
Herbert Sauro
Actually there is a simple solution for this matter.
Instead of source packages you could use "checkinstall" package that allows a person to produce
rpm, deb and tar.gz (for slackware) packages.
I used this to install SBW in Debian. Unfortunately, there s a catch... there isn't dependency treatment.
The commands are straitforward:
./configure [insert options here]
make
checkinstall option (instead of make install)
Sorry for not being more specific but I'm in Windows rigth now since JDesigner only works there. :(
If you need more help let me now at pamm_at_student_dot_dei_dot_uc_dot_pt
but I'm really new to SBW.
Sorry.
I was to quick to answer.
The install I mencioned, used libsbml source , since I cound find SBW's.
In spite of that, my comment remains valid. It's a quick way to create packages.
Alexandre Martins