Julia Installer wizard does not work in Windows bundle about spine-toolbox

[nelliputkonen]

I can do it :)

[DillonJ]

If at all possible, it would be great if there was a bundle solution for SpineOpt users. While I appreciate there are complexities, it feels like having to install Julia saperately and manually is defeating the purpose. Would this also mean that there are other manual steps required back in toolbox to point to the julia installation?

[nelliputkonen]

Completely agree with @DillonJ, it would be wonderful for the user if there could be a bundle solution, so the user only needs to install SpineOpt via Toolbox and Julia is handled in the background!

[soininen]

Would this also mean that there are other manual steps required back in toolbox to point to the julia installation?

Toolbox picks up Julia automatically if it finds it in the PATH environment variable. Otherwise, you must do it manually.

It is possible to add any files into the bundle so we could try embedding Julia and SpineOpt into a special Toolbox .zip bundle. The biggest hurdle would probably be the embedded Julia: it has to be "relocatable", that is, it has to be possible to start Julia from the unzipped directory so there cannot be any hard-coded paths in the Julia package. Relocatability was exactly the reason why we ended up using the special "embeddable" Python instead of a full-blown installation in the current Toolbox bundles.

In any case, bundling Julia and SpineOpt with Toolbox is a topic for another issue. Anyone interested in that could open one.

[soininen]

I am not saying I do not have interest in such bundles --- on the contrary I would love to see such easy-to-install packages for SpineOpt and for FlexTool, too. It is just that my own resources are limited to maintaining the current bundle and Downloads page.