Re: [Swarm-Support] Batchmode only version

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Gary Polhill wrote:
> How easy would it be to create a Batchmode-only version of Swarm? Such
> a thing would be useful for gridding Swarm applications as presumably
> all the needed software is no longer required (assuming no Java or HDF5)
> apart from gcc and make, and would therefore considerably simplify the
> Swarm compilation/installation process for grids. (Grid hosts tend not
> to like RPMs for security reasons...)
>   
Hmm, I think Scott Christley had basically done this for the GNUstep 
front end.   It's not a big deal, and should really be how Swarm is 
packaged.  All of the needed software packages for Swarm are pretty 
common now and easy to install as binary packages.  But when faced with 
grid admins that have rigid ideas about what is appropriate to install 
and what isn't, I just build everything I want from source and then let 
them complain about the disk space (which should not be a problem in 
this age of $150 200GB SATA drives).