[rkward-devel] static windows binary

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi,

an update on this:

On Saturday 08 May 2010, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Well a live CD would be pretty cool. However I think the most exciting
>  option is to simply provide a self-extracting archive that contains a
>  complete installation of RKWard, kdebase, and R (with R2HTML, and perhaps
>  some others pre-installed). This should be rather easy to create and
>  maintain, and (taking my somewhat atypical installation as a reference) I
>  think this would be somewhere around 200-250MB for the download.

I tried with KDE 4.4.1 (kdebase-runtime, and even kdebase-apps included), R 
2.11.0, and RKWard 0.5.3. Unpacked it's around 600MB (+ some overhead for the 
many small files; I did not try to make an ISO image, yet, but I would guess it 
will fit by a narrow margin). Packed into a self-extracting archive with 7zip 
this comes down to ~129MB, which isn't all that bad, IMO.

Now that the technical side of this is pretty much sorted out, there are some 
legal issues to consider. First is this: 
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/10927 . The second issue 
is complying with GPL version 2, section 3. I guess the easiest option will be 
to gather all relevant sources, pack them up, and offer them for download as 
well. Of course this will duplicate the effort involved, but according to my 
reading, simply pointing out where the sources can be downloaded, regularly, 
is not enough for GPL v 2 compliance.

It would also be nice, if one or more people could volunteer to (co-)maintain 
this "bundle" (i.e. create a new package for each new release of RKWard, and 
perhaps for "important" new releases of R and KDE). The work involved is not 
much more difficult than the current installation procedure, but does probably 
take around an hour for each release (some of this could be automated).

Regards
Thomas
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