Wrap up everything as executable without the need of installed scilab? Scilab for BOINC-Project

[Constellation Athome]

Dear Scilab-Users,

my former plan to use scilab from a java *.jar file didn't work so I would
like to ask in a broader sense.
We are currently planing a BOINC-project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boincand therefor it would be nice to
have a self running / executable scilab
app. This is important, because BOINC will send the app to all kind of users
and the users' BOINC clients will run them. And you can't expect everyone to
have an installed scilab-software (olthough this would be nice :)), so the
app must contain everything that is needed to run the scilab script and
everything without installing it. Just think of it as a big package that can
run on your private PC or on your work PC, for which you don't have admin
rights and can't install everything. It just must be startable (exe or
console command) and runable.

So, is this possible, and how? And of course how big is the folder size? It
should be as few as few as possible. for example it should just calculate in
a console, loading the workunit file, saving the result, no graphic output
is needed so it should be seperated, but it would be nice to have this also
in the package, because BOINC is a screensaver, so the graphic output could
be interesting for feeding the screensaver window :).

And perhaps you ask yourself why we want to use scilab? It's simple because
of the simulation creators. Mostly the person with the good idea is able to
do the mathmagic, but the person is unable to code in any common progamming
language. So using scilab would give us a way to bring BOINC to more
scientists/students than right now.

I am aware of the decreased performance but this is discussable when you
gain an easier scripting language in contrast to a programming language, and
perhaps there is a real scilab compiler or just a code translator to
c/c++/java.

Thank you in advance for your help,


Andreas Hornig
www.constellation.pro.tc (BETA!)
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