From: "Richard F Weber" <rfweber@link.com>
To: Mo DeJong <mdejong@cygnus.com>
Cc: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Get rid of the Linux binary?
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 03:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ACD9E1B.5090500@link.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.1010405220801.29851J-100000@cse.cygnus.com>
Well, I would think do one of several things
1) Offer binary .rpm's for RH6.x & RH7.x, as well as source .rpm's for
other platforms. Would take care of dependencies, and allow users on
say Mandrake to download and install
2) Also offer .deb files, but it's a format you have to support that you
may not want to. But it's better for the karma.
3)
Another comment, as an Admin, I like using RPM's because it's easier to
document how to install something, and just do an rpm -Uvh on it. As an
end-user, I think it's kind of cheesy (sorry, no offense intended) that
RedHat doesn't have one of their tools packaged up in .rpm format for a
RedHat user to install from.
Also, is SourceNav going to be offered on the PowerTools CD for RH7.1?
I'd even like to see it on the main distribution, but I don't know what
determines whether something is on the main distribution or not.
SourceNav is a really nice tool so far, and sticking it with the RH
distribution is a nice way to increase it's exposure, plus convince
companies to use. "Look, we should use SourceNav as our IDE because it
comes free with the OS". Sorry about meandering a little off topic.
--Rich
Mo DeJong wrote:
> It seems like the most serious problem folks
> have run into so far is crashing when running
> the Linux binary. This is most likely a
> glibc mismatch problem, and frankly we
> don't really want to deal with it.
>
> I think we should just remove the "general"
> Linux binary. It simply does not work,
> people pull it down on some Linux box
> we have not tested on, it does not work,
> then boom we have a bunch of bug reports
> to deal with. I would rather just give
> Linux users the source code. Linux comes
> with a gcc, so there is no reason someone
> could not compile it from source.
>
> We still plan on giving out RPMS for
> Red Hat 6.x and 7.x when the Tcl/Tk 8.3
> upgrade is done. Other folks have also
> done binary versions for other Linux
> distros. I think this is the right
> solution for everyone in the long run.
>
> Comments?
>
> Mo DeJong
> Red Hat Inc
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-06 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-05 22:14 Mo DeJong
2001-04-06 0:54 ` Mike Clarkson
2001-04-06 3:44 ` Richard F Weber [this message]
2001-04-06 12:33 ` Mo DeJong
2001-04-07 12:51 ` Eray Ozkural (exa)
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