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 _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
