[JOSS REVIEW] Install instructions

[trallard]

Related to openjournals/joss-reviews#1185

There are detailed instructions for development installs, but there are no instructions for the general usage (i.e. I want to use the tool but not necessarily add a new function).

It might be worth to:

• Package the latest release in a way that could be relatively easily installed by both Windows and unix users
• Provide the instructions on the wiki in addition to the development ones

[codeling]

Thanks for the feedback!

• We try to provide installable binaries for testing/using our software through the open_iA releases page; we currently provide binaries for Windows (7-10) as well as Linux. The linux build should work at least on current Ubuntu and derivatives. We also provide a short user guide, which is linked to also from the Help menu in the application. We unfortunately don't know an easy mechanism at the moment for providing binaries that work across multiple linux/unix distributions, and we don't have the resources to run builds for multiple distributions. If you have any proposals how we could improve that situation we'd be very glad! We have started looking into the flatpak format, and might provide such packages in the near future, but so far we couldn't get our program to reliably run within its sandboxing mechanisms, the major issue was with access to files.

• As for instructions, our Readme.md references the releases page ("For trying it out, download the latest binary version from github."), as well as the wiki front page (section "Getting open_iA"). Do you have any suggestions how we can make this information more accessible? I have reformulated the latest release description on the releases page in the hopes that this clears things up a bit already.

[katyhuff]

@trallard : have you checked out the binaries mentioned above? The linux binary works for me, as does the superbuild. (but I'm not on windows...)

[trallard]

Fab. All works as expected, I might have just missed this bits