Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for the reply. On 12/05/12 16:37, Jeremy Morton wrote: > I'm a bit confused as my messages don't seem to be getting posted to the > google group and yet you see them. Anyway... Saw the same thing, I think this is because someone in this thread started to post from Google or something. I'm sure this post will end up there too by the list.octality.com mailinglist mirror. > Yes I suspected that it was... but I'm just saying you might want to > re-read what you write to make sure it doesn't sound overly aggressive. > That can discourage people from participating which I'm sure you don't want. I'll try to look into this more carefully, while I do spend a lot of time in writing messages, I may need to do it in a more 'friendlyer' tone. > Yes, but installing a package is still way easier than compilation. You > can get compilation errors. Compilation errors are show stoppers, we should not have those. If we do it should be taken care of as soon as possible. The question here might also be, can we expect from a user that a compilation error is reported on github? Some users do (such as the ffmpeg case), others don't and we lost them as potential user. > And updating is done automatically with > packages - does the user want to keep recompiling for every new version? As efficiency freak I would say yes. Everyone should benefit from -march=native -O2 CFLAGS, so hardware consumes less power for the same performance. That was what this project was once about, speed. Since I am also compiling it for MIPS and ARM (Raspberry Pi) it really doesn't take that long ;) Regarding updates, obviously it could take a while if a user in Linux >From Scratch style should manually upgrade all their packages opposed to a distribution wide upgrade were nobody has a clue what happened or what changed (which by itself raises new questions). There is no general solution for this problem. > Well, to make it easier for the users of those distributions? It's a > courtesy. As courtesy it done deal, given enough manpower. (and yes this is a virtuous circle) Stefan _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
