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

[Johnoel Ancheta]

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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