[kepler-dev] Kepler Alpha2 Installer Problems

[Shawn Bowers]

Something to keep on the back-burner that I think would be really 
useful, and even fit into SEEKs vision with EcoGrid and the more recent 
conversations concerning a file-management subsystem, would be to ship a 
version of Kepler that doesn't include the many actors/workflows that 
have been developed.

Instead, there should be some mechanism that would allow a user to 
download, install, and run specific workflows/actors or packages of 
these that they find relevant.

This would make it much smaller and even streamline much of the build 
process ... There are a ton of applications (even for Java) that have 
this type of "add-in" capability; and I believe in many ways Ptolemy 
already supports this.

shawn



Matt Jones wrote:

> Well, I think we need to work on the size of the installer.  We should 
> remove the GARP test data (get it from EcoGrid instead) and trim down 
> the installer as much as possible.  If we can make the installer itself 
> much smaller then machines with less memory would be able to better 
> handle it.  I think we do need a traditional installer, as the zip/batch 
> file approach is simply too unconventional for our target audience.
> 
> Matt
> 
> Dan Higgins wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>>    Mark Schildhauer recently reported problems with the Kepler Alpha2 
>> installers for Windows platforms. On a machine with 256MB of RAM and 
>> 1-2GB of disk space, he received messages of 'not enough space 
>> available' when running the installers.
>>
>>    Installer tests that I (and others) have done have worked 
>> successfully, but they were done on Windows machines with at least 
>> 10GB of free disk space and 512MB of RAM. Has anyone else experienced 
>> difficulties with the installers (as downloaded from the Kepler website)?
>>
>>    An alternative which worked for Mark is to use the zip file that is 
>> listed as a Linux installer on the Kepler distribution page. Expanding 
>> this zip file creates a directory image of Kepler that really is 
>> platform independent. Running 'kepler.bat' will start Kepler on a 
>> Windows machine, while running 'kepler.sh' will launch it on Linux. 
>> {This assumes that Java is already installed on your system.)
>>
>>    Given the large size of the kepler distribution and problems with 
>> installers, perhaps we should consider just distributing zipped images 
>> and ask that user install Java separately?
>>
>> Dan
>>
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