On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 11:20 +1300, David Koontz wrote:
> On 6 Jan 2014, at 10:18 am, Brian Drummond <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > There are too many combinations of OS, distribution, platform to cover
> > all the bases with binary releases! Debian etc would prefer to work from
> > a source release, and I believe we can encourage people to cover other
> > platforms; FreeBSD for example.
> 
> All this Linux centric thinking.  And there's nothing magical about a self 
> contained compiler environment on Linux.  The bit about too many targets is a 
> source
> 
> There's exactly one OS X target.  There's barely two for Windows. FreeBSD 
> takes care of itself.
> 
> Make ghdl source only distribution and you'll keep the user base from 
> expanding.  (As in what are the two biggest user base OS's of those listed 
> above?)

No, sorry I was unclear, I just don't want to land Tristan with all the
work! 

The more binary releases we can cover between us, the better; with the
source release for the gaps.

If you can package the OSX one for easy installation, go for it.

- Brian





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