On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 04:38:36PM -0700, Too, Justin A. wrote: > Ease of "installation" for end users. Specifically, we have 40 identical > machines with the same tool chain. Our developers are using these > systems. It's a hassle to require each developer to install our project > for non-development purposes (i.e. To just use the executable). > > I would like to continually release a pre-built binary after each source > code integration. Then, each developer can simply download this > distribution and plop it into their own $HOME (or whatever their > convention is) and use it. > > Hope this makes sense.
Depending on what you mean by "installation". I personally prefer providing native (non-relocatable) packages and require "sudo dpkg -i package.deb" / "sudo rpm -i package.rpm". With kind regards, Baurzhan.