Ales Hvezda wrote:
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?
Great idea, but I don't think it needs to be this complicated. I would
suggest doing magic binaries for RHEL/Centos and SUSE, and possibly RH9,
and leaving everyone else to figure it out for themselves. That way you
get both the people who just use Linux as an OS, and the hackers as well.
Al:
Such an old system may not be a standard distro. It is likely
that it has been updated many times, but not in an organized
way. Even if it was a standard distro at the beginning you may
not recognize it as such now. Besides, nobody in their right
mind would want to keep track of all 200 distros.
Hackers don't run old distros; anyone with RH7.2, for example, has it
for a reason and wont mess with it. In my case, I've still got a 7.2 box
because it was the only distro that Synopsys supported 5 years ago.
Having said that, I'm not suggesting supporting 7.2, because anyone who
has it for a good reason will probably also have RHEL.
Evan
