On 11/9/16, Artur Shepilko <nomadb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Seriously, guys,
The existing download works great on the vast majority of Linux desktops. For the small minority where it doesn't work, "./configure; make" is an easy alternative. Where does one draw the line? If we have separate builds for 64-bit and 32-bit Intel Fossil, what about ARM? Or Sparc? Or PowerPC. Hey, why no VAX build? And shouldn't we also then publish binaries with various compile-time options enabled/disabled? Why no --json and --with-tcl builds? Rather than spend a lot of time generating and publishing an ever-growing assortment of precompiled, I think the developers' time would be better spent just making "./configure; make" work better/easier on all systems. We've already made a lot of progress in that area. Fossil has few external dependencies. More often than not "./configure;make" just works. If "./configure;make" is not working for you, then by all means talk about the problem and we will try to fix it. That complaint is much more likely to fall upon sympathetic ears. But I'm not particularly motivated to add an ever-growing assortment of precompiled binaries to the download page. If anything, I'd like to cull a few. Linux and OpenBSD being obvious candidates since "./configure;make" works so well on those platforms. -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ fossil-dev mailing list fossil-dev@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-dev
