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CellML Automated Notifications wrote:
> Revision: 3325
> Author: agarny
> Date: 2009-03-26 14:18:15 +1300 (Thu, 26 Mar 2009)
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> Log Message:
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> Further updates to the Windows documentation. Note that a Microsoft Visual
> C++ 2005 build of gsl is not supported by default, so we had to make it
> possible (thanks god, someone did for us before, though for Microsoft
> Visual .NET 2003.
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> Should now be ready to build the CellML DOM API...
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> Modified Paths:
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> CellML_DOM_API/trunk/docs/build_process_windows.txt
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> Added Paths:
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> CellML_DOM_API/trunk/docs/gsl-1.11-win32.zip
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Hi all,

I don't think we should put Windows binaries in /docs/. It does make
sense for us in some circumstances to archive external source and
binaries to aid in the build process, but this archive should definitely
not be under docs (or anywhere else under CellML_DOM_API for that
matter). This applies for several reasons:

1) People downloading source tarballs of the CellML API don't expect it
to have Windows binaries for one specific platform in it. This would
increase the size of the tarballs even for people wanting the CellML API
for use on a non-Windows platform.
2) GSL is only available under GPL, while our codebase is mostly
tri-licensed under GPL / LGPL / MPL. We can't distribute GSL as part of
the code and continue to claim that people can use the code under any of
the three licenses - at least we would have to point out somewhere that
GSL can only be redistributed under the GPL.

Best wishes,
Andrew

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• [cellml-dev] [3325] CellML_DOM_API/trunk/docs: Further updates to the Windows documentation., Andrew Miller, 03/26/2009
  • [cellml-dev] [3325] CellML_DOM_API/trunk/docs: Further updates to the Windows documentation., Alan Garny, 03/26/2009

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