[ITP] dx-4.3.2 (a.k.a. opendx) and dxsamples-4.3.2
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Fri Dec 5 15:14:00 GMT 2003
I forgot to mention that you can point Cygwin's setup.exe to the
following address to grab the source and binary packages for testing:
http://www.egr.msu.edu/~huntharo/cygwin/
Harold
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> [CCing opendx-dev because developers there may be interested in this new
> package and hopefully they can offer some help in testing.]
>
> I would like to contribute and maintain dx and dxsamples for Cygwin:
>
> http://www.opendx.org/
>
> Description from opendx.org:
>
> If you need visualization for anything from examining simple data sets
> to analyzing complex, time-dependent data from disparate sources, OpenDX
> has what you need: features and functions that let you easily gain
> meaningful insight into your data.
>
>
> ***Reviewer's Caveat***: The 'dx' command segfaults on startup, when run
> without any parameters, in XGetGCValues (IIRC) (which runs the
> 'startupui' command by default). However, the other commands do appear
> to work. For example, 'dx -edit' works; you can load any of the sample
> programs and execute them to view their output. I am not a user of dx,
> so I can't do much more testing. The 'startupui' bug is something that
> can be fixed after this is released into the wild. Be sure to open a
> new login shell before trying to run 'dx' since the scripts in profile.d
> need to be run to add 'dx' to your path.
>
> ------------------------ cut here --------------------------------------
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> mkdir dx
> cd dx
>
> wget \
> http://www.egr.msu.edu/~huntharo/cygwin/release/dx/setup.hint
>
> wget \
> http://www.egr.msu.edu/~huntharo/cygwin/release/dx/dx-4.3.2-1.tar.bz2
>
> wget \
> http://www.egr.msu.edu/~huntharo/cygwin/release/dx/dx-4.3.2-1-src.tar.bz2
>
> mkdir dxsamples
> cd dxsamples
>
> wget \
> http://www.egr.msu.edu/~huntharo/cygwin/release/dx/dxsamples/setup.hint
>
> wget \
> http://www.egr.msu.edu/~huntharo/cygwin/release/dx/dxsamples/dxsamples-4.3.2-1.tar.bz2
>
>
> wget \
> http://www.egr.msu.edu/~huntharo/cygwin/release/dx/dxsamples/dxsamples-4.3.2-1-src.tar.bz2
>
>
> ------------------------ cut here --------------------------------------
>
> MD5 sums:
>
> 20ba3798444c6e49c900e4f93ce7ec00 *dx/dx-4.3.2-1-src.tar.bz2
> 0b844181cd0930e8994333777dd228de *dx/dx-4.3.2-1.tar.bz2
> 43346409900d84e73a1bf66e1b31ca22
> *dx/dxsamples/dxsamples-4.3.2-1-src.tar.bz2
> b6513545bffc5a30cc60136b2228297d *dx/dxsamples/dxsamples-4.3.2-1.tar.bz2
> bf9f810352b4be04e89d30f3693afb3b *dx/dxsamples/setup.hint
> 9ee3c18f3f24b8a04e230b7e9dea6a10 *dx/setup.hint
>
>
> Harold
>
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