Dear all,
According to Linux distributions, there is probably a difference between the distributions installed in the physics departments and the ones installed on personal machines. In the departments, I think Debian and Fedora will be the usual distribution installed. On personal computers and especially on laptops, I think that Ubuntu represents most part of them. So I would say that rpm will be a good thing but also Ubuntu to encourage people to try on their own laptop. As mentioned, if a Debian package is available, Ubuntu installation should be more or less straightforward.
Jean-David
Le 5 févr. 2010 à 09:05, Matthias Troyer a écrit :
On Feb 5, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Ryo IGARASHI wrote:
Dear Prof. Troyer,
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Matthias Troyer troyer@phys.ethz.ch wrote:
We only have one ia64 machine at ETH that we do not use for ALPS at the moment, but I believe that Synge used to run ALPS on the ia64 architecture. Can you please check with Synge? For most casual ALPS users who want packaged releases it should be enough to support i386 and x86_64
I am also running my application under ia64 but not on Debian. The point is, that I don't believe there is many Debian-installed ia64 machine.
Then don't worry about it. We should focus on what users really need and not what one could do in principle. There is too much to do to indulge in the luxury of supporting all possible platforms just for the fun of it. To summarize, the packages we need are:
MacOS X ALPS Vistrails patch MacOS X 32-bit MacOS 10.5 MacOS X 64-bit MacOS 10.6
Windows Vistrails patch Windows 32-bit
Debian i386 Debian i86_64
How about RPM ? Suse ? Ubuntu ?
Matthias