Re: more binaries

["Aexander Varakin" <avarakin00 hotmail com>]

Hi Pavel,

Would you be interested in 4.6.0 binaries for Solaris, HP-UX and AIX?
Is it better to use 4.6.0 sources or latest snapshot?
Could you please give suggested set of configure options?
Do you want builds with debug info or stripped?
I would suggest zip format for packaging because it is available on all
platforms and doesn't require root access for installing.

Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pavel Roskin" <proski gnu org>
To: "Alexander Levitsky" <aalevitsky yahoo com>
Cc: <Mc gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: more binaries


> Hello!
>
> > I still keep old binary versions for SPARC-Solaris, Intel-Solaris, AIX,
> > FreeBSD, HPUX, Alpha. These ready-to-use binaries have saved a lot of
> > time for me and my friends. They are mostly for 4.1, but it might be
> > even better, because there is no need for the additional libraries. I
> > believe 4.1.36 was the very last real stand-alone version.
>
> The problem with old binaries is that if they are distributed from the mc
> site, following things will happen:
>
> 1) People will use old binaries rather than compile the current version.
>
> 2) Compile errors in the current version won't be reported and fixed.
>
> 3) Errors in the old binaries will be reported to the mailing list, even
> if they were fixed in the source years ago.
>
> 4) The current version will be considered non-portable if the maintainers
> cannot provide an up-to-date binary and provide and old binary instead.
>
> As for the "stand-alone version", it's possible to link glib statically,
> as well as other libraries.
>
> I'm not interested in distributing binaries for old versions.  I'm
> interested in binaries for the latest version in the native package format
> and with minimal dependencies.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
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