Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#113 closed enhancement (fixed)

Linux installer has .bin suffix but is actually a .tar.gz

Reported by: Tom Goddard Owned by: Greg Couch
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: Build System Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Notify when closed: Platform: all
Project: chimera

Description

The Linux daily build distribution has a .bin suffix (chimera-2.0+git.version.bin) suggesting it is an executable, but in fact it is a tar gzip file. Maybe the suffix should be ".tgz" until the builds is changed to make an executable installer.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Tom Goddard, 10 years ago

Would also be nice if this tar gzip file contained a chimera2 directory at the top level. Instead it has bin, lib, share, include, ... at the top level right now.

comment:2 by Greg Couch, 10 years ago 

The current setup is just what was convenient for pushing daily builds.  
It should change to be an installer before Chimera2 is released.

comment:3 by goddard@…, 10 years ago 

Understood.  When I try to use the Linux build I waste time changing the file suffix and making the same mistake of thinking it will extract into a chimera2 directory.  It would be nice if it works well for us developers until such a time as an installer is made.

comment:4 by Greg Couch, 10 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

Changed to be a .tar.gz file.

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