[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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