Re: bug in Hugs 1.4 and 1.3c arithmetic (Number library)

[Jeffrey R. Lewis]

Alastair Reid wrote:

> > Alastair:
> > >   How do people feel about packages vs source tarballs?
>
> Jeff:
> > Any reason to make it either/or?
>
> For portability reasons, we're always going to ship tars and zips.
> I'm just trying to decide whether we'd ever want to add packages.
>
> > If you know how to make RPMS (which is what I assume you are talking about),
> > why not pop one together for each release?
>
> But, to answer your question:
>
> o Binary releases are a lot of effort and aren't very portable.

  I can't argue with that, but I still want 'em ;-)  I agree it's inconvenient
that there are sooo many distributions in unix-land.  How 'bout if you rely on
civic-minded volunteers to build the packages for you?

  Has anyone tried putting together a package that consists of source that unpacks
itself, configures itself via autoconf, compiles itself, installs itself into a
standard location, and then removes the source.  All defaults could of course be
overridden.  It's be kinda fun to watch, dontcha think?

--Jeff