From: olivier <o.turlier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 2c considerations about win installer
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:26:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2006.04.22.10.26.40.669678@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60f8c1827dc0a7c7006ddc52611e9944@di.unito.it>
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:33:04 +0200, andrea valle wrote:
> Dear all,
> I'm using conTeXt to create automatic documentation about sound
> classification. The idea is that starting from an html file collecting
> infos about sounds my program can generate some schematic images using
> R and POV-Ray and to create a conTeXt file including both images and
> textual information.
>
> Now, I'd like to share this work with my students. I'm on macosx,
> they're typically on win. My program is in python so it's
> cross-platform, so no problem. Obviously they can annotate sounds,
> generate images and include them manually in a MS word file. But I'd
> prefer that they compile the conTeXt file.
>
> On two win machines I tried to install conTeXt using the complete
> package (shipped with Scite: nice). I had always (different) troubles
> (on each machine) with environment variable (e.g. for Perl): actually
> I'm not able to run conTeXt.
>
> Hacking a bit, eventually asking the list, I think I will solve the
> problem. But I don't think that my students can do, as I suspect that
> they probably not even know what is PATH. And I cannot help them on
> each installation.
>
> So, more generally, I was asking myself if it would not be possible
> (and better) to have an .exe installer as usual happens in win,
> including Perl, maybe Ruby (+ or- 20 Mb doesn't change too much).
> Double click, and it set ups all the installation parameters. A
> completely autonomous installer would allow many people to try, use
> and get fond conTeXt (and maybe to leave Word) without having to
> struggle with problems which typically lead people to leave out.
>
> It seems to me that a similar installer would be a refinement in the
> spirit of the actual mswincontext distro.
> At the end, it's not that far form Gerben's distro on macosx. It does
> everything for me...
> Or maybe am I missing something?
>
> Just my 2 c
>
> Best
>
> -a-
>
>
>
> Andrea Valle
> DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
> Università degli Studi di Torino
> http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea
> andrea.valle@unito.it
If I'm not wrong,
If you go on http://www.pragma-ade.com/dir/context/install/ (click
documents > directory view > context > install), you will find that the
bigger *.zip (cdwincontext.zip) contains Perl & Ruby, while
mswincontext.zip no. So you can run Context out of the box with
cdwincontext. (untested, because I got Perl & Ruby already)
Your students can also install Ruby (single click .exe
: Rubyinstaller from
: http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9417/ruby184-16_rc1.exe)
and Perl (single click .exe : activePerl
:http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/) whithout any pb's of
adding new executables to the path, since it's done while installation.
Cheers
--
olivier Turlier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-22 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-20 23:33 andrea valle
2006-04-21 7:43 ` Jilani Khaldi
2006-04-21 11:41 ` Hans Hagen
2006-04-22 16:20 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-04-23 14:25 ` andrea valle
2006-04-23 16:12 ` Hans Hagen
2006-04-23 17:40 ` andrea valle
2006-04-23 16:30 ` Hans Hagen
2006-04-22 10:26 ` olivier [this message]
2006-04-22 13:33 ` Mari Voipio
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