Le 22 févr. 05, à 12:29, Mark Lowe a écrit :
...What are the exact reasons you don't like a source distribution?
If I were working on my own then there's not a huge problem, but this isn't the case. There are several agencies involved and the usual political difficulties when changing things like build files and versions....
One very usable solution to this problem, until we have more packaged distributions, is to exchange everything through a common CVS (or subversion) repository where reproducible builds are created (this is how we work here BTW, hint;-)
In my experience it hasn't been a problem to convince people (even relatively non-technical ones) to do
cvs update -dP . ./build.sh clean startthestuff
or run a script doing this to apply updates.
And once they see the huge benefits of CVS with respect to code exchange and communications, and feel empowered to change stuff that they need to change, they love it.
My 2 cents - we don't live in an ideal world yet but this *works*.
-Bertrand
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