-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Salam,
On Tuesday 13 April 2004 23:42, ahmad khalifa wrote: > what do u mean by going to be released ? do u mean in binary form (.SO and > .DLL) ? It means a release in a form of a source tarball (and often binary executables/libraries are released in parallel for some systems too, but that is not required). It is the snapshot of the CVS at a given time (the time the authors decide that their code is distributable, that is :-). The release is aimed at the end users, so it's supposed to be well-documented and easy to compile and use. > because i thought that it was released by being on cvs. thats why i think > it doesnt need any compile script. > > i havent thought of the dynamic library stuff. but if its going to get > released as > dynamic lib. then a simple makefile should take care of the job. right ? That's where autotools come in action. You can't distribute the source with a 'hand-written' makefile (unless you want to make it very big). End users don't have the same hardware/software, so autotools check for the user's configuration (for ex, the installed compiler, its version etc) and automagically builds the makefile ;-) I hope it answers your questions, Salam, - -- Youcef R. Rahal Arabeyes.org http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAfGdbHDRR6Cd0eSYRAhr9AJ99dSE5xB1TMmPFf9Zca73BbgHZIQCfdSY+ kYWbuZMz7qKlFn648SVRdDM= =aJrR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
