[kepler-dev] Kepler distribution?

[Bertram Ludaescher]

Tobin:

There is in fact a download available here:
	http://kepler.ecoinformatics.org/downloads.html 

However having a periodic snapshot (and a corresponding test suite to
check what's working and what not) is probably a good idea.

If I'm not mistaken, some of that is in the making already...

Bertram



>>>>> "TF" == Tobin Fricke <tobin at splorg.org> writes:
TF> 
TF> Re: The current talk of installers, etc -- Currently the only way (AFAIK)
TF> to get Kepler is to check it out of CVS.  I have made CVS snapshots for my
TF> colleagues who want to play with Kepler:
TF> 
TF> 	cvs checkout kepler
TF>         setenv archive kepler-`date +"%G%m%d"`.tar
TF> 	tar -cvf $archive kepler
TF> 	gzip -9 $archive
TF> 	mv ${archive}.gz ../public_html/archive
TF> 	ln -sf ../public_html/{${archive}.gz,kepler-current.tar.gz}
TF> 
TF> Could we make such snapshots available from the ecoinformatics site,
TF> generated by a cron job that runs periodically? (Even weekly would be
TF> fine.)  Anonymous CVS is another option (more complicated, but more
TF> efficient).
TF> 
TF> The Kepler CVS snapshot clocks in at 156 Mb uncompressed or 37 Mb gzipped
TF> -- a rather huge distribution!  "du kepler | sort -n" shows that this is
TF> heavily lumped in the 'testdata' (104 Mb) and, specifically,
TF> 'testdata/garp' (95 Mb) subdirectories:
TF> 
TF> ...
TF> 8616    kepler/lib/testdata/grass
TF> 20355   kepler/docs
TF> 23072   kepler/lib/jar
TF> 95215   kepler/lib/testdata/garp
TF> 104307  kepler/lib/testdata
TF> 130860  kepler/lib
TF> 159325  kepler
TF> 
TF> Removing testdata/garp results in tarball that is 63 Mb uncompressed and
TF> 34 Mb gzipped.   I guess that test data isn't too entropic. (-:
TF> 
TF> I think that a tarball distribution for linux is sufficient for (and
TF> preffered by!) most users of that platform, although some kind of
TF> demand-loading Web Start system would also be cool.
TF> 
TF> Tobin
TF> 
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