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John Clevenger

Jogl Demo downloads linux AMD file

Hi,
When I download the jogl-demos.7z file from /deployment/jogamp-current/archive, it unzips to a file named jogl-demos-2.0-20111219-linux-amd64 (regardless of my target machine). It runs fine on my Windows machine, but I'm wondering why the demo file has the Linux/AMD-specific naming? This is pretty confusing to students to whom I give instructions to download and run the demos. Is there some reason the demos are specifically named linux-amd64?

Sven Gothel

Re: Jogl Demo downloads linux AMD file

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On 02/23/2012 12:34 AM, John Clevenger [via jogamp] wrote:

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>
> Hi,
> When I download the jogl-demos.7z file from
> /deployment/jogamp-current/archive, it unzips to a file named
> jogl-demos-2.0-20111219-linux-amd64 (regardless of my target machine). It
> runs fine on my Windows machine, but I'm wondering why the demo file has the
> Linux/AMD-specific naming? This is pretty confusing to students to whom I
> give instructions to download and run the demos. Is there some reason the
> demos are specifically named linux-amd64?

Thanks for finding this little 'unbeauty' :)
Will remove the os.and.arch tag later.

It's just the 'one' from the linux amd64 node,
but it's platform independent.

~Sven

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gouessej

Re: Jogl Demo downloads linux AMD file

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In reply to this post by John Clevenger

So I assume you give them instructions to install JOGL only on Windows... whereas installing JOGL on any operating system is not that different when you use JARs containing native libraries as you don't have to set the Java library path anymore (this setting differs between various operating systems).

However, I understand the confusion.

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clevengr

Re: Jogl Demo downloads linux AMD file

I have a generic handout on JOGL installation that I give to all students. However, since most people do better with examples, it includes some platform-specific examples; since most of my students use Windows I chose that for the parenthetical examples. I've also discovered that Linux users are generally able to figure things out given Windows instructions, whereas the reverse isn't quite so true. But having the os.and.arch tag in the name made it sound like it matters, when of course in this case it doesn't. As you say, it just generates confusion.

I do particularly like the platform-independence provided by having the natives in jars which are loaded automatically.

Thanks for the replies. Keep up the great work you guys are doing.

Sven Gothel

Re: Jogl Demo downloads linux AMD file

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On 02/29/2012 03:15 AM, clevengr [via jogamp] wrote:

>
>
> I have a generic handout on JOGL installation that I give to all students.
> However, since most people do better with examples, it includes some
> platform-specific examples; since most of my students use Windows I chose
> that for the parenthetical examples. I've also discovered that Linux users
> are generally able to figure things out given Windows instructions, whereas
> the reverse isn't quite so true. But having the os.and.arch tag in the name
> made it sound like it matters, when of course in this case it doesn't. As
> you say, it just generates confusion.
>
> I do particularly like the platform-independence provided by having the
> natives in jars which are loaded automatically.
>
> Thanks for the replies. Keep up the great work you guys are doing.
>

jogamp.org/deployment/jogamp-test/

the demos archives have the os.and.arch removed,
will be official in next version.

~Sven

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