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   ryancw
   Member

   I teach family medicine at a medical school. I've written a perl program to produce summaries of student performance (ie grades and the accompanying narrative comments) based on rating sheets completed by faculty. I used PN2 of course!

   I hope to present this new grading system at a conference in October 2010. I'd like to distribute my perl source code, and all the necessary software for participants to run it after they get back to their home institutions. My program is nothing fancy, no GUI or anything; it runs in batch mode not interactively. So users will have to make a few tweaks to my perl code to customize it to their institutions. So they will need a text editor. I'd like to provide them PN2 on CDROM.

   Notwithstanding a few exceptions, I expect that computer literacy among the attendees, beyond typical office productivity suites, will not be sufficient to download and install PN2, add a perl tool to the dropdown menu, etc.

   So a couple questions:

   1. Is it allowed to give them PN2?
   2. If so, is it possible to do it on CD?
   3. If so, is there a way to give them a customized version so that perl, as an item on the Tools menu, is already present and configured? And perl syntax highlighting too?

   Thanks.

   --Chris

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   simon
   PN Developer

   Hi Chris,

   1. Yes, you can distribute PN2
   2. Yes, CD is fine, obviously they may get update notifications right after install but I guess this is ok.
   3. There is, but you would have to do one of two things:

   a. Build a custom version of the installer that includes your pre-configured tools
   b. Create a "run from cd" configuration that has the tools pre-configured, this way there's no installer but to use without the CD the user would have to copy the directory to their machine

   Perl highlighting support should already be configured by default.

   Hope that helps,

   Simon.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   simon
   PN Developer

   Oh, to include your tools just configure them in the UI and then copy your UserTools.xml from the user settings folder into the Tools directory under your PN install - renaming the file would be a good idea.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   ryancw
   Member

   Thanks Simon. I'll give it a try and see how simple I can make it.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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