Carl mentioned:
> [...] the hugs 1.4 was the Debian packaged version: [...]
That reminds me that I meant to ask:
How do people feel about packages vs source tarballs?
As I see it, packages have the advantage that they give you a warm
fuzzy feeling when you install them but the disadvantages that you
can't tweak the configuration and they might not perfectly suit your
machine. (eg the guy who built the package might be using a different
version of libc or readline)
Having installed plenty of code from source, I get a warm fuzzy feeling the
moment I realise it uses autoconf. Do packages make people feel warmer
or fuzzier?
Alastair
ps If anyone out there is wondering why they haven't seen another beta
release recently, it's because my usual hate-hate relationship with NT
has deteriorated significantly. To build a distribution, I have to
transfer a bunch of files back and forth between NT and Solaris
(see hugs/src/distrib/README) and the NT-Solaris network connection
seems to alternate between very low performance and total failure.
I'd make the usual smug remarks about how much better Unix is than NT
if I didn't know what a crock NFS is - at least Samba tries to be secure.
