On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Paul Davis wrote:
> so, no, i don't need help packaging. i need help to convince people to
> (1) stop using packages and (2) to avoid RH7.X and (3) to convince
> package maintainers to *never* distribute modified versions of source
> available as a tarball.
Can anyone name for me a widely-used Open Source application that
(1) is only available from CVS and (2) requires compiliation of all of its
supporting libraries from scratch?
> building Ardour is "simple" if your definition of "simple" includes:
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*snip* an arduous process
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> personally, i wouldn't call that "simple", and i also don't see any
> easy way to make it so.
Maybe we should rename "Ardour" to "Arduous". ;-)= Just kidding.
Ardour isn't the first Open Source application to use external
libraries. Look at some other Open Source projects. What do they do?
=== Kevin Conder, http://KevinDumpsCore.com
