[brailleblaster] Re: Preparing for the next release
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:47:40 -0500
Well, this is not final. Onl.y developers are likely to test
BrailleBlaster at this stage. However, I can provide a single download
for each platform and architecture. That will be simpler in some ways.
One problem is that my machines and compilers are all 64-bit. Volunteers
are needed to produce the 32-bit versions of liblouis and liblouisutdml.
We should also probably have volunteers who can produce the libraries
for Mac PowerPC's. However, I wonder if there are versions of swt for
the PowerPC.
John
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:48:14PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> I would possibly say that in final things that is really expected to be used
> by users, installation should be as simple as possible. Therefore I feel it
> should be a single download the user would need to do.
>
> There are probably sufficient platform specific parts that it would not be
> reasonable (if possible) to include binaries for all platforms. Therefore
> there are likely to be platform specific downloads. However to have a common
> download plus a platform specific download is more downloads for the user
> than can be achieved. It probably is best for compiled versions to simply
> have "ready to run" downloads for each platform. This is normally what is
> done. Normally there is also a source distribution, which should not contain
> dependencies but this should not be a problem as anyone building from source
> is probably a more advanced user or at least is reading documents.
>
> I know sometimes it may feel a waste of space to duplicate the common code in
> each platform specific download, however consider how large actually is the
> common code in this case? Is that bit of duplication and slight inefficiency
> worth the benefit of user experience? I feel it is.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 11 Aug 2011, at 03:06, John J. Boyer wrote:
>
> > BrailleBlaster is now able to translate and format on all three
> > platforms. In the next few days I may be posting messages about
> > particular problems in preparing for the next release. In this message I
> > would like to ask for suggestions for setting up a preliminary
> > distribution system that is not too onerous for the users and not too
> > hard to implement.
> >
> > I am thinking of having a base download containing all the
> > platform-independent components and a README explaining how to add the
> > platform-dependent ones. There would be a download for each platform. It
> > willl contain the swt.jar for that platform and the liblouis and
> > liblouisutdml libraries.
> >
> > Volunteers will be needed to produce some of the platform-dependent
> > downloads. For example, someone with a 32-bit Windows system and a
> > 32-bit Microsoft C/C++ compiler will be needed.
> >
> > More mesages will follow. For now, i would appreciate suggestions on
> > the distribution system.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> > --
> > John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> > Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> > http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> > Madison, Wisconsin USA
> > Developing software for people with disabilities
> >
> >
>
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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