[ADMB Users] include contrib

[bigA]

I really am not sure about what the state of user contributed packages is.
 However, if the idea is to provide a unified package distribution scheme
then it seems sensible to look to how the BSDs and Gentoo distribute source
and make files.  It could make dependency checking easier, have nice web
interfaces, and often play reasonably well with version control.
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/introduction.html#why-pkgsrc
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1

I hate suggesting things without being able to contribute; it it feels like
there no organizational structure. Perhaps I am missing something, but
there doesn't seem to be an "official" repository the most current versions
of user contributed packages.  It also seems that the technology to
maintain an accessible repository of all the stable source code exists.  If
others are interested, I am willing to help the admb community build a
repository of user contributed packages.  If  I am the only one who cares
or if there will be few user contributed packages I don't want to waste my
time.  In addition, admb is now open source!! Open source projects need
more than developers to survive.  If admb wants to grow it might be helpful
to put a guide to helping on its website. Debian has a great webpage which
helps guide people interested in helping that project.
http://www.debian.org/intro/help
Also Debian has a visible organizational structure; this makes it easier to
find the right people to contact about helping.
http://www.debian.org/intro/organization

Sorry for the rant.  I think admb is amazing and I want it to grow and be
successful.
Aaron



On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:53 PM, John Sibert <sibert at hawaii.edu> wrote:

> No. We just waffled about it in Santa Barbara, but that is as far as it
> went. I'm not sure we ever came to grips with how to cope with contributed
> libraries.
>
> John
>
>
> On 01/03/2012 03:32 PM, Mollie Brooks wrote:
>
>> Thanks John,
>> I couldn't quite tell from the earlier threads if that had been done or
>> not.
>> Mollie
>>
>>
>> On 3 Jan 2012, at 8:11 PM, John Sibert wrote:
>>
>>  Assuming you are using the admb script?
>>>
>>> It is necessary to specify the include search path for the compiler
>>> using -I , e.g
>>> -I/Users/molliebrooks/admb-**trunk/contrib/statslib
>>>
>>> For the admb script, this option would be included in the CXXFLAGS
>>> environment variable.
>>>
>>> I'm sure someone will figure out an elegant solution.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> John
>>>
>>> On 01/03/2012 02:44 PM, Mollie Brooks wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi ADMB community,
>>>>
>>>> I'm working on some user contributed libraries and want to make sure
>>>> that I'm testing them correctly. So I was wondering if there is an
>>>> established way to include these types of files. I'm testing inclusion
>>>> methods with already working user contributed code.
>>>>
>>>> I am able to use files from the contrib directory by specifying the
>>>> path with the following line
>>>>        #include</Users/molliebrooks/**admb-trunk/contrib/statslib/**dnbinom.cpp>
>>>>   //this works
>>>>
>>>> I also tried the following
>>>>        #include "contrib.h" //this doesn't work
>>>>        #include "statsLib.h" //this doesn't work
>>>>        #include "statslib.h" //this doesn't work
>>>>        #include<contrib.h>   //this doesn't work
>>>>        #include<statsLib.h>   //this doesn't work
>>>>        #include<statslib.h>   //this doesn't work
>>>>
>>>> The errors are always similar to
>>>>  seeds_test.cpp:1:43: error: statslib.h: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> I am using the most recent svn version of ADMB.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> Mollie
>>>>
>>>> Mollie Brooks
>>>> Ph.D. Candidate
>>>> NSF IGERT Fellow
>>>> Biology Department
>>>> University of Florida
>>>> mbrooks at ufl.edu
>>>> http://people.biology.ufl.edu/**mbrooks<http://people.biology.ufl.edu/mbrooks>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
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