[ On Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 10:21:41 (-0500), Jim.Hyslop wrote: ]
Subject: RE: Binary release announcements?
If you can't, or won't, build the software you use yourself then you
need to find someone who can _and_ who you trust to do that for you.
Some people seem to be awfully
People who don't want, or can't, compile their own programs should be
looking to their software integration vendor for such support.
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that people who don't feel comfortable
compiling programs should buy support?
So these people have no place in the
Greg A. Woods wrote:
[ On Tuesday, February 17, 2004 at 08:36:43 (+), Andy
Jones wrote: ]
Subject: Re: Binary release announcements?
For my own part, there are some programs I am comfortable compiling
and some I most certainly am not. It so happens that CVS
falls in the
former
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Jim.Hyslop wrote:
A perfect case in point is the recent thread about the Windows build being
broken - again. I've been through this many times with various open source
projects, and trying to get the software to build just is not worth the
hassle involved if there's a
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 10:21, Jim.Hyslop wrote:
So, if I'm not even going
to look at the code, why should I have to compile it from source if there's
a pre-built binary available?
FWIW me too. When a new release of CVS comes out, I'm very happy to
be able to grab a Windows binary, unzip
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I agree 100% with Jim Hyslop's POV.
There's also still the whole issue of trust.
How did I know you were going to bring that up? :=)
Like ANYBODY who looks at the CVS code can trust it! So it's not as bad as
qmail and other hideous projects out there but the
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Andy Jones wrote:
People who don't want, or can't, compile their own programs should be
looking to their software integration vendor for such support.
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that people who don't
feel comfortable compiling
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Greg A. Woods wrote:
That will only be true in the most trivial of cases. With something
even slightly complex, such as CVS, successful operation depends a great
deal on many of the steps that come after a proper compilation and
linking of the
[ On Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 11:25:56 (-0500), Patton, Matthew E., CTR,
OSD-PAE wrote: ]
Subject: RE: Binary release announcements?
Like ANYBODY who looks at the CVS code can trust it! So it's not as bad as
qmail and other hideous projects out there but the code-base is anything
[ On Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 09:32:00 (+), Andy Jones wrote: ]
Subject: Re: Binary release announcements?
People who don't want, or can't, compile their own programs should be
looking to their software integration vendor for such support.
If I understand you correctly, you
[ On Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 10:21:41 (-0500), Jim.Hyslop wrote: ]
Subject: RE: Binary release announcements?
A perfect case in point is the recent thread about the Windows build being
broken - again. I've been through this many times with various open source
projects, and trying
Some folks prefer poking themselves in the eye with a dirty old stick
too, but that doesn't mean we should encourage their behaviour.
Except in certain cases, of course -- there are some people that you
don't *want* to see what's going on. ;-)
With the greatest of respect, of *course* you
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Is there general interest in having the binaries announced as they are
posted to the cvshome.org web site? I just received a request for Win32
Thanks for all the reponses. There was enough interest and enough
people who thought using the other
[ On Tuesday, February 17, 2004 at 08:36:43 (+), Andy Jones wrote: ]
Subject: Re: Binary release announcements?
For my own part, there are some programs I am comfortable compiling
and some I most certainly am not. It so happens that CVS falls in the
former category (now), but I can
[ On Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 20:36:00 (-0500), Derek Robert Price wrote: ]
Subject: Re: Binary release announcements?
That hardly proves that I would mind providing courtesy announcements to
info-cvs when binaries get posted if folks are interested. Some people
seem to prefer
Greg A. Woods writes:
Some folks prefer poking themselves in the eye with a dirty old stick
too, but that doesn't mean we should encourage their behaviour.
Except in certain cases, of course -- there are some people that you
don't *want* to see what's going on. ;-)
-Larry Jones
See, it all
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Andre Schoorl wrote:
Incidentally, is there a new release of cvs-1.12 pending? I've noticed
a few versions of the stable version recently, but no corresponding
development versions. I am running 1.12 for its native PAM support,
which I previously
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Hey all,
Is there general interest in having the binaries announced as they are
posted to the cvshome.org web site? I just received a request for Win32
announcements, but if I was going to do that then I'd probably announce
all binaries as they were
[ On Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 11:15:33 (-0500), Derek Robert Price wrote: ]
Subject: Binary release announcements?
Is there general interest in having the binaries announced as they are
posted to the cvshome.org web site?
CVS is open _source_ software
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Greg A. Woods wrote:
[ On Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 11:15:33 (-0500), Derek Robert
Price wrote: ]
Subject: Binary release announcements?
Is there general interest in having the binaries announced as they are
posted to the cvshome.org web site
a month..
Gagneet
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