On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 05:55:04AM +0000, Filipe Coelho wrote: > I think we should stop assuming releasing source code is enough.
Enough for what ? Users who don't want to install from source want packages made for the package manager of their distro, which will take care of dependencies etc. You can't expcect a developer to provide such packages for each and every distro. I don't even provide them for the distro I use myself. > [GNU/] Linux is getting more user friendly, Depends very much on what you understand by 'user friendly'. > and most users are not able to compile software, They can learn to do it. It's not rocket science. > plus some distributions make it specially hard (debian, ubuntu, > fedora, opensuse) by having the libs installed but not the headers. They all provide 'devel' packages as well. Why they split things up is another question, IMHO it's a silly thing to do. Usually the space taken by the headers is small fraction of the total. > Releasing software on windows or mac, even open-source, *always* > comes in a binary, and most users come from there. And why do they want to change ? To get 'free as in beer' software ? Then they should accept that this comes at a price: a small effort from their side. > Now, I have a "toolchain" repository for ubuntu 10.04 with gcc4.8, > python3+qt4 and a bunch of other useful stuff. Unless that toolchain can magically create packages for all major distros (and I'm pretty sure it can't do that), what's the point ? Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
