Re: Linux/UNIX users and installation

Posted by Gabriel Landini on Dec 14, 2009; 12:57pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-development-involvement-contributions-tp3690030p3690055.html

Hi Raymond,

On Monday 14 Dec 2009  12:38:03 you wrote:
> I found the Opensuse ImageJ one recently. Installed it on Mandriva, it
> works in general, but there are no plugins or macros available with it
> (even though some default macros are in the jar itself?).

I think that is a problem. I do not see the advantage to install it system-
wide in computers where I am the only user. Of course if one is an admin of a
multi user setup it might be handy, but I have no experience on this.

> To me, at least, it is sort of broken if it cannot put a working folder
>  into the users home folder as a default setup (e.g., with plugins and
>  macros folders, etc.) like most other applications do. MIPAV, also a Java
>  application from NIH, does do this when installed on Linux.

Yes, that would be a problem when installed in the system as opposed to the
user space. I wonder whether the rpm is being packaged by somebody who
actually uses IJ because if s/he did, the issues you mention should have been
resolved by now (IJ rpms have been available in those repos for some time).
 
> I think it is supposed to upgrade. And my question was to basically
>  determine if anybody ever would revert to an older version or move up and
>  down between them, aside from only being interested in upgrading.

It allows to test the behaviour of older versions when one finds a bug. Not
sure everybody uses this often, but I have used a few times and it is quite
handy.

Cheers,
G.