[cctbxbb] Build Notes for cctbx on OS X 10.7.5

Nathaniel Echols nechols at lbl.gov
Fri Mar 22 12:45:15 PDT 2013


On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:39 PM, James Stroud <xtald00d at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> I'm positive I did the most naïve thing (i.e. what a typical user would do)
> and
>
> 1. googled "cctbx"
> 2. clicked on the top hit (http://cctbx.sourceforge.net/)
> 3. clicked on downloads (http://cci.lbl.gov/cctbx_build/)
> 4. scrolled down to sources and clicked the first link
> (http://cci.lbl.gov/cctbx_build/results/2012_05_08_2305/cctbx_python_273_bundle.selfx)

This should now be changed to the build from late February (2013).

> A helpful addition to the download page might be conspicuous instructions
> for an svn/git/hg/etc checkout of the "latest-greatest" development tree, if
> the sources are preferable to the released builds.

Unfortunately at present the builds include a lot of stuff that isn't
in cctbx proper, including some SVN trees which aren't publicly
available.  I'd like to change this, but we need to discuss it
internally.

> Many projects support
> that mechanism of distribution. For some projects, like git itself
> (http://git-scm.com/downloads), this is the recommended way of acquiring the
> sources. If the package needs to be bundled into an archive, maybe there
> should be a conspicuous "nightly build" link.

Agreed.

-Nat


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