Re: install

On Saturday 08 May 2004 17:54, John Brawley wrote:
> I can't see this yet (have 'issues' with Java, etc.), but I note this: I've
> been in a mailgroup specifically aimed at _evolution_, and there are a lot
> of bits and pieces of work on "genetic algorithms" and suchlike
> computer=modellings of evolution, so I know quite a few people who would be
> interested in seeing what you're doing, BUT unless it can be put in some
> form that doesn't demand a runtime environment, it's unlikely they can
> actually use it (play with it).

if one brief and free install of Java is too much for them, they're not 
working hard enough.

> Any thoughts or plans to get some of this (expecially an evolutionary
> algorithm, which is of _intense_ interest to some of these
> people --evolutionary biologists and other creationism-fighters) into some
> readily downloadable-and-runnable form that Windows users can just
> grab-and-go with ?

users with relatively modern computers and Windows should be able to download 
and install the JRE in minutes and then click on my web start link.

-- 
Gerald de Jong
Beautiful Code BV
Rotterdam, NL


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