Exporting Eprime to an Eprime Naive Computer

[David McFarlane]

Good question, and a feature that many of us would like to have in 
E-Prime.  But E-Prime is not like "other standard engineering 
software packages" -- to be sure, E-Prime is not even an 
"engineering" package meant for serious programmers, it is a 
"psychology" package meant primarily for casual use by amateurs 
(although it has enough features so that serious programmers can 
still make use of it).  So, AFAIK E-Prime, *by design*, has no 
facility to allow distribution of run-time code to run without 
installing E-Prime.  In fact, just think about the license terms -- 
you are allowed to install E-Prime to run experiments on up to some 
number (25?) of machines *within your lab*.  How could they enforce 
those terms if you could export EP code to run willy-nilly on any old 
machine?  (Mind you, I am not defending the terms of the license, 
only reflecting on what those terms imply with regard to your question.)

But please, do not take my word for this.  You really should take 
this up directly with PST -- try Web Support at 
http://support.pstnet.com/e%2Dprime/support/login.asp .  And then 
please post back here with the result.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


At 5/25/2011 01:54 PM Wednesday, you wrote:
>Hi all-
>
>My research group would like see if we can compile all the EPrime code
>(in v1) and export it into an eprime naive computer..  i.e one that
>does not have any Eprime software sans code to read and implement this
>Eprime script on it.  I understand that you can install Eprime 1 on a
>computer and, without a key, still collect data. But is there a
>legally sound way to ship out an install package, say over e-mail or
>via download, that has the background software AND your code (and
>that's it)?  From my experience with other standard engineering
>software packages, primarily Matlab and Labview, I know this is
>frequently an option for GUIs, DAQs, etc
>.
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>-B

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