2009/1/13 Paul Wise <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> However, the library comes with many example programs, which currently >> are compiled, *but not shipped in the binary*. What's the best way to >> solve this? The GSL created a gsl-bin package where the examples go, >> but somone in #debian-devel told me that it would be better to just >> forgo such a package entirely and not attempt to compile the library >> at all. [snip] > Compiling them during package build is also fine; it can be viewed as > a kind of test suite, which is always good.
But it takes a long-ass time to compile them, especially since all of CImg has to be compiled each time, and there's 30 of them. I think it's more environmentally friendly to forestall the heat death of the universe by avoiding unnecessary compilation. Still opposed? - Jordi G. H.
