From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Richard F Weber" To: Mo DeJong Cc: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Get rid of the Linux binary? Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 03:44:00 -0000 Message-id: <3ACD9E1B.5090500@link.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-q2/msg00058.html 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 > >