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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Developers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I just got an email from somebody who was having trouble installing ADMB. In my experience it’s very smooth and easy, but I think he was hampered by lack of clear instructions. I’m sure folks are working on improving the instructions, but at the moment, things are pretty confusing.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The average new user is probably using Windows and surely doesn’t want to mess with source code.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If they go to <a href="http://admb-project.org/documentation">http://admb-project.org/documentation</a> there are no longer installation instructions, just README.txt. If you open that file, you have to scroll through a lot of text, past all the instructions for installing from source code for a half-dozen system
s to get
distributions, which says <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>Binary installation instructions can be found at "http://www.admb-project.org/documentation/".<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>which is no longer accurate.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you type “install” into the search box on the ADMB site, you get a nice list, including links to the nice old installation for various systems, including clear steps and figures, but the links on these pages still point to installers for version 9.1.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Also, in the past I think the MinGW installation was described as the “recommended” version. At the moment, I think that for Windows users this is still much easier to install than the versions for Visual C++ or Borland, so might it make sense to still make a suggestion to help new users who may have no idea abo
ut which
Another option would be a simple table listing features or trade-offs of the different Windows versions to help people pick one.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-Ian<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>