Re: Countdown for libgii 0.8 and libggi 2beta release

[Christoph Egger]

On 10 Jul 2001, Thayne Harbaugh wrote:

> On 10 Jul 2001 22:29:03 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Brian S. Julin writes:
> >  > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Christoph Egger wrote:
> >  > > Now I have two source tarballs (libgii and libggi).
> >  > > 
> >  > > I have called them as libgii_0.8.src.tar.bz2 and
> >  > > libggi_2.0b4.src.tar.bz2.
> >  > > 
> >  > > Is the filename ok or is it somehow confusing?
> >  > > 
> >  > > I start creating two binary tarballs for Linux/i386.
> >  > > 
> >  > > Brian: Would you like to create binary tarballs for Linux/Alpha?
> >  > 
> >  > How do you want binary tarballs -- should I just build in a separate
> >  > directory and give them essentially a tree full of .libs directories
> >  > and makefiles?  Binary tarballs make me nervous, but I guess I'm the
> >  > one with the Alpha.
> > 
> > I suggest install everything in /usr/local as usual then
> > make a tarball with everything that got installed from /
> 
> My favorite is to create an RPM and then convert it to a tar.  
> You can then kill two birds with one stone: RPM and tar binary at
> the same time and they will be identical.

So would you like doing this? If yes, which platforms can you
support?


CU,

Christoph Egger
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