f/fgeorge <ffgeorge@yourplace.com> wrote:

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:51:20 GMT, Wayne Brown <fwbrown@bellsouth.net>
wrote:

I don't really care whether it has a GUI or not.  But in the past, when
a new version of the Classic client was released it was a simple matter
of downloading it from the SETI website, untarring or unzipping it in
the proper directory, and that was it.  I wouldn't care if the code
was modified, rewritten or completely replaced, if the same method of
installing and running it was used, without needing to change any of my
custom scripts or procedures for running it.  Since installing it in July
1999 I've pretty much let it run on autopilot, other than the occasional
client update.  I've sometimes gone for months at a time without even
needing to notice or remember that the Classic stuff is running on my
machines; that's the level of non-involvement I'd like to maintain in
running it.

I have been running Classic since Dec 1999 and STILL have 5 or 6
machines crunching for it! I also have 15 crunching for Boinc. Do you
REALLY THINK that I could do all this without an easy to use and run
program?! Boinc is no harder to use than Classic is/was. Yes it has a
couple of idiosyncrasies! EVERY program does. Yes Classic let you do
external caching of units, No Boinc does not, right now. Not a biggie,
it is easily overcome!

My point is not how easy or difficult BOINC is to install and use.
The point is that BOINC is not a simple drop-in replacement that requires
no other changes.  *If* it could be installed *exactly* like a Classic
client update and *nothing* else would need to change in my custom
scripts, etc., then I might consider it.  But even so, I don't really
like the whole BOINC multi-project-capability infrastructure.  I much
prefer a system dedicated to one single task, so I'd rather just stick
with GIMPS, even though it also is quite different from SETI Classic.
(If I have to learn something different, I'd at least prefer it to be
something that I *like*.)

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