On 15 Jul 2001 13:44:01 +0200 Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk> wrote: > > As for Xiamin Gnome, I don't want to go into that, so don't bring it > > up. > > I think the problem is that most people just download Ximian's > distribution. So instructions for building the source code tend to > become unmaintained - I tend to agree with you there. > if you want to give a hand with that, I'm sure > some people will appreciate it (I don't know who to contact though, I > also simply download Ximian's distribution). Time is not something I have a lot of, but I could write up a html file (or text) that has the correct order to install the components and links to download them. I think one of the biggest problems is the developers of the individual components do not provide the urls to download the required libraries (bonobo comes to mind and a few others). In my opinion anything that is related to Xiamin was never designed to easily download the source and compile it. (I'm in a better mood now so I will go into it) There are no tarballs availabe on the Xiamin ftp server... all the source is in packaged with the distro's packaging tool. [see my messages earlier this month] Appearantly any of those source packages could be built on any machine running any distro, but I don't like it.... if they can be built on any system, then why aren't they tarballs. This is my biggest problem with Xiamin. I don't want to waste the small amount of bandwidth I have (33.6 modem) on downloading something I might not be able to build. > I think someone started a project to build vanilla Gnome (non-Ximian) > packages, maybe they can help. That's cool, but I could download the binaries from my distro's ftp server, but I don't do binaries, which I am sure I'm not the only one who feels this way. I enjoy compiling the code on my own system... there is a certain greater repect/love for the softare if I built it myself... also I like it optimized for my system. Pat -- Patrick Kellaher http://www.cubenet.plus.com Public Key: http://www.cubenet.plus.com/files/pub-key.txt --------------------------------------------------------- "Black holes are where God divided by zero." --Steven Wright
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