Re: [Help-glpk] [Fwd: read.me]

[Raniere Gaia Silva]

Andrew,
do you have plan to write a README for the examples folder?

Raniere

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Andrew Makhorin <address@hidden> wrote:
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: robin hankin <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: read.me
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:26:28 +1300
>
> Hello.   glpk is awesome; keep it up!
>
> There is no "read.me" file in the examples section, and I wasted  quite
> a long time fiddling about
> getting the examples to work [I am a mathematician but not a programmer]
>
> It is not immediately obvious how to run sudoku.mod, for example.  A
> short sentence or two
> in a read.me file would have saved me a lot of googling and frustration.
>
> How about this for a first suggestion:
>
> <suggested file contents>
>
> To run these examples, you need to install the package (see the INSTALL
> file),
> then type
>
> "glpsol -m sudoku.mod"
>
> on the command line.  You may find that installing with
>
> "./configure --disable-shared ; make; sudo make install"
>
> avoids some commonly-encountered errors.
>
>
> </suggested file contents>
>
> OK, I know that this might look blindingly obvious; but it wasn't
> obvious to me earlier today.
>
> best wishes
>
>
>
> --
> Robin Hankin
> Uncertainty Analyst
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>
>
>
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