Remember the good old days, when edbrowse was a single Perl script? You could download it, plop it in a directory in $PATH, and go. No fuss, no muss. Until late 2001 or so, that Perl script didn't even have any external dependencies, aside from a working Perl. It was one easily-deployed executable. That's why I still occasionally use the Perl version of edbrowse.
Those days are back, at least if you're on Linux! Here's a statically linked edbrowse executable: http://the-brannons.com/edbrowse-static-linux This was built from a snapshot taken in April, so it's not quite in sync with git. I'll fix that later. Also, I'll eventually distribute a gpg signature, so you can be assured that the binary actually came from me. Unfortunately, it's around 9 megabytes in size, compared to a 223k Perl script. Plus, the Perl version remains useful for non-Linux hosts. Anyway, this should make life easier for people who just want to get up and running with edbrowse while avoiding the chore of building it for themselves. I built this on Alpine Linux, and it is linked against musl, a new implementation of the standard C library. Cudos to Rich Felker for releasing a full-featured libc that does *not* break static linking! For people who like to read source, the musl codebase is also quite readable. -- Chris _______________________________________________ Edbrowse-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-brannons.com/mailman/listinfo/edbrowse-dev
