On 1/29/2021 11:00 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
most open source projects don't provide binaries
Maybe yes, maybe no. Most of the FOSS software I use* comes as compiled
executables, often with an install process. And there is a fair difference
logically between libraries and executables; the former are more often
distributed as source and the latter more often as compiled (and I'm sure
there are exceptions both ways). Without a strong survey, it's probably
impossibly to quantify.
*(On the machine I'm using right now- firefox, thunderbird, putty,
handbrake, openshell, greenshot, freefilesync, _vlc_, ImageMagick, PSpad,
etc etc; all installed from pre-compiled packages from that project.)
why should they?
Convenience to the user? Not everyone wants to (or can) build-from-source.
Control over the build process- it's usually easier to "support" when you
know when and how something was built and that it passes at least a smoke test.
(That's a start.)
In the end, some projects want to put the effort into it, some don't.
Probably not worth arguing over.
Later,
z!
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