Hi Stuart and all,
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>Personally, I would key the dependency requirements to time, not
>version. That is, I would allow support for any RedHat distro of the
>last 5 years, any SuSE distro of the last 5 years, any Debian distro
>of the last 5 years, and so on. However, this requires more thought
>than requiring GTK-2.2 (or whatever), and so I am happy with the way
>Ales defined it because I provides several years of backwards
>compatibility.
I know I've been talking about this at Freedog meetings for a
few months now (really they does exist, honest :), but what if there
existed a magic collection of gEDA/gaf (and/or more of the gEDA suite)
binaries that actually ran on old versions of Linux, say all the way
back to RH 7.2 and forward to the most bleeding edge Debian unstable.
These magical binaries are based on the absolutely bleeding edge gtk+,
guile, glib, etc... and will work on even poorly configured systems.
* What do people think of that?
* Would that satisfy the vast majority of users (note, I said majority;
there is _no_ way to keep everybody happy)?
* Would people be comfortable running them (that is assuming they trust
the person building the binaries)?
* Or is this a complete waste of time?
-Ales
