[MINC-users] New packages available..

[Penhune Lab]

i would like a windows native compile

On 11/8/07, Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Out of curiosity - how do these play with the MINC1 deb packages? All
> > the MINC2 installs in /usr/local/bic, whereas MINC1 goes in
> > /usr/local/mni, so theoretically they are safe to keep side-by-side
> > (leaving aside why one might want to do this), right?
>
> I thought long and hard about this and finally came to realisation
> that I did not want to call MINC 2 "minc2" if only for the obvious
> reason that then what do I call mni-autoreg that is linked against
> this?  mni-autoreg-minc2? etc.  So I stuck with the notion of
> breaking/updating everything.
>
> > But then package naming comes in - say one has all the MINC1 deb
> > packages installed, one adds a new line for the MINC2 packages to
> > sources.list, and runs apt-get update/upgrade. As far as I can tell
> > that will upgrade only minc and bicpl to MINC2, and leave a bunch of a
> > scattered minc1 and minc2 stuff in both /usr/local/{mni,bic}.
>
> It should upgrade everything to MINC2 in time as I get to releasing
> updated versions of packages. Note the "should". :)
>
> > I suppose there is no way to keep a parallel MINC1 and MINC2 install
> > while relying on the deb packages?
>
> There is, but the only way that I know would be to rename all the old
> packages minc1 or something. That seems just as ugly. I do know that
> there are ways in which you can trick apt-get into keeping both but it
> is not straight forward.
>
> > On a related note, these packages install OK on debian sarge, but
> > won't run because libhdf5-1.6.5 does not seem to be available as a
> > sarge package (1.6.2 is).
>
> Correct, I am slowly getting my virtual machines all working so that i
> can build packages for all the various debians..
>
> On that note, I would like to have some sort of informal vote:
>
> What architectures are people using for MINC and thus which should I
> build packages for?  I know we have these so far that are fairly well
> used:
>
>    * Ubuntu (Feisty + Gutsy in time)
>    * OSX (10.4 and 10.5)
>
>
> There are then also these ugly cousins:
>    * XP + Cygwin  (not that well updated as I now have Vista)
>    * Windows native (possible via CMake now but not pretty)
>
> Get your votes in now! :)
>
>
> a
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