Re: [Swarm-Support] Batchmode only version

[Gary Polhill]

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>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).

The size of disk space used for the GUI libraries is negligible in
comparison with the amount of data we'll be generating! I'll contact
Scott Christley to see how he got on, but since building everything from
source is a hassle (we've had problems with BLT) and on a grid you're
not going to want the GUI anyway, being able to ./configure
--without-gui (or somesuch) when compiling Swarm would be great. There
would need to be a macro defined (like __NO_SWARM_GUI__) so that when
compiling models you can #ifdef out the gui bits.

Gary