Jyri Virkki wrote:
> Having anyone and everyone contribute pre-built binary packages is a
> bad idea. It's ok for testing/experimenting but not for formally
> published packages.
>
> Published packages need to be built on a known-standardized (on the
> lowest common denominator supported) Release Engineering machine for
> them to reliably be useful for everyone else.
>
> Packages built locally by developers on assorted laptops/etc in
> various state of install means some of them will run on baseline
> 2008.05 and other won't. (And some will run nowhere except in the
> submitters own machine - people do get creative installing things with
> their main work desktops.)
>
> If the goal is to have lots of applications useful to everyone, as
> opposed to just lots of packages, they should get built on baselined
> RE machines. Certainly by an automated process, as I see discussed a
> little later in the thread, since centralized manual interaction
> doesn't scale.
So you're recommending creating a contrib consolidation for these to
be checked into and built from?
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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