---- you Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote ---- > Yes, it requires a net connection, but from > where did you get your initial source tarball anyway ?
Well, a couple of points: -- The initial download requires a net connection somewhere, but many folks only download once and then work on that copy for a while. I don't mind that, but I would mind having to wait for the net connection for every time I recompile something. (While having to do this only the first time you build a new download is better, it's still quite annoying and is difficult to document). -- What about the developer who works for a larger organization who got the distro from some internal network at their site? That individual may *never* actually have an external net connection - they may only work on an intranet, where some other member on the team downloaded the sources or distros for them to an internal server. Don't laugh, I have dealt with exactly this kind of situation in the past. I guess in the larger scale, this is part of a meta-issue of the overall usability of Apache projects for any potential user out there - including non-technical users. My preference is to try to do the little extra bit of coordination and work on our part to enable those folks who *don't* happen to already be expert developers to be able to quickly and easily use our projects. But that's just my perspective. 8-) - Shane __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
