[Developers] Issue 58 in admb-project: Should have coreutils as prerequistes in MinGW installation documentation.

Johnoel Ancheta johnoel at hawaii.edu
Thu May 21 12:05:46 PDT 2009


Agreed.  ADMB should eventually minimise the dependencies, but for now
it is required for ADMB as it is now.  This will be hopefully corrected in Issue 59.

Cheers,
Johnoel


----- Original Message -----
From: Arni Magnusson <arnima at hafro.is>
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009 3:01 am
Subject: Re: [Developers] Issue 58 in admb-project: Should have coreutils as prerequistes in MinGW installation documentation.
To: developers at admb-project.org

> Hi all,
> 
> I don't think coreutils should be a prerequisite for ADMB for 
> MinGW GCC 
> 3.4.5.
> 
> This new prerequisite is related to a bug (Issue 59) that 
> introduced a 
> needless dependency on cat.exe, because ADMB for MinGW GCC 3.4.5 
> was built 
> with a makefile that mistakenly used a -DUX flag.
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/admb-
> users/browse_thread/thread/ffd596566f50c2cd
> ADMB requires a C++ compiler and nothing else (after Issue 59 is 
> fixed). 
> ADMB-RE requires a C++ compiler and sed.exe (not in coreutils). 
> Additional 
> dependencies should be avoided at all cost, in my opinion.
> 
> The ADMB for MinGW documentation also lists make.exe as a 
> prerequisite, 
> and I don't think it should. The makefiles are an excellent test 
> suite 
> that developers should use before releasing a new version of 
> ADMB, but I 
> don't think these makefiles should be included in the release. 
> Once they 
> have reached the user, the main purpose of the examples is to 
> introduce 
> beginners to simple models, consisting of one TPL and one DAT file.
> 
> I use 25 out of 168 GnuWin32 packages myself, including 
> coreutils and 
> make. I can recommend them all, just like Putty, Firefox, etc. A 
> Windows 
> machine without these programs feels awkward and limiting for 
> me, but I 
> still don't think every ADMB user in Windows needs coreutils and make.
> 
> ADMB is complicated as it is. Unnecessary confusing components 
> will only 
> work against the goals of the ADMB Project, in my opinion.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Arni
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 21 May 2009, codesite-noreply at google.com wrote:
> 
> > Updates:
> > 	Status: Done
> >
> > Comment #1 on issue 58 by jnancheta: Should have coreutils as 
> > prerequistes in MinGW installation documentation. 
> > http://code.google.com/p/admb-project/issues/detail?id=58
> >
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