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UWS Portable?
After many problems with getting helpdesk to fix problems, its quite obvious that we're better off doing the work ourselves...
There have been many occasions when software has been requested and just hasn't been installed in time, or correctly, or in some cases never installed at all. I propose we start a project on the UWS Open site where we collect together information about getting as much of the software that we require running from USB pen drives/external hard drives so there is no installation required.
This would actually give us quite an advantage as any projects we develop could then be executed, perhaps recompiled, on any computer that had the required hardware specs, without the need for a particular piece of software, library, or configuration already being present. There have been several occasions when students and graduates (myself included) have looked back at an old project they have been working on and have been unable to run or recompile it as the required software is no longer on the Uni computers.
Although it would be good to have this software available for both linux and Mac OS X, because the Uni computers all run Windows, this would be the primary target platform. For this, we can use things like Portable Apps, but the idea is to get every piece of (legal) software needed for the UWS modules running without the need for installation.
I intend on starting off with Eclipse (easy), along with Python, Pygame and the Pydev extension for Eclipse. I would then possibly move onto getting the Eclipse CDT environment working, complete with SDL and Cg so that the full C++ environment could be run on any computer with the required hardware. Getting Visual Studio working from a pen drive may be a bit trickier ...
So, is anyone interested in helping to get this project off the ground?
There have been many occasions when software has been requested and just hasn't been installed in time, or correctly, or in some cases never installed at all. I propose we start a project on the UWS Open site where we collect together information about getting as much of the software that we require running from USB pen drives/external hard drives so there is no installation required.
This would actually give us quite an advantage as any projects we develop could then be executed, perhaps recompiled, on any computer that had the required hardware specs, without the need for a particular piece of software, library, or configuration already being present. There have been several occasions when students and graduates (myself included) have looked back at an old project they have been working on and have been unable to run or recompile it as the required software is no longer on the Uni computers.
Although it would be good to have this software available for both linux and Mac OS X, because the Uni computers all run Windows, this would be the primary target platform. For this, we can use things like Portable Apps, but the idea is to get every piece of (legal) software needed for the UWS modules running without the need for installation.
I intend on starting off with Eclipse (easy), along with Python, Pygame and the Pydev extension for Eclipse. I would then possibly move onto getting the Eclipse CDT environment working, complete with SDL and Cg so that the full C++ environment could be run on any computer with the required hardware. Getting Visual Studio working from a pen drive may be a bit trickier ...
So, is anyone interested in helping to get this project off the ground?
Tags: cg, eclipse, portable, pygame, python, sdl, software, uws
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