Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] ardour Q
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 00:25:18 EEST
>> Please, would people stop using RPM's or any package system for that
>> matter to install libraries that they need to use with applications
>> that they have to compile from source?
>
> Perhaps the programmer should make an RPM available so people
>don't have to compile their application directly from the source.
only to find that it core dumps and behaves in mysterious ways because
of a minor change in one of the binary-RPM-installed libraries it
links against.
and frankly, the point of not providing RPMs is not to be
spiteful. its to stop anyone from thinking that they've got "a
version" of Ardour. there are many times when i change hundreds of
lines of absolutely basic code in Ardour in one day. i don't want
people downloading RPMs and then continuing to feed me with bug
reports. thats why i don't like tarballs right now either. CVS makes
it easy for me to say "pick up the changes" because i know it will
take them less than a minute to download and then they get a clean
rebuild. telling someone to download a multi-MB binary package 4 times
a day in order to try to fix a bug is not my idea of "user
friendliness" for the current community of users.
when things are more stable, providing a binary would make sense. it
won't, however, deal with library versioning and compiler
compatibility issues.
--p
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