On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 09:24:19PM +0000, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > The problem isn’t so much the compile as what packages are installed on > your machine. Even if we release binaries that doesn’t mean it will run. > > What we really need is Debian and Redhat packages released and kept up to > date. That would solve the problem since packages include metadata about > dependencies. So then all you do is tell your package manager to install > and it brings along everything you need > > I think we could do a better job of publishing how tos for each OS. > Building and installing programs from source isn’t so hard once you know a > 100% working recipe for your system. > > — John.
Do you have pointers to Linux-based tools that are worthy of packaging? I'm not a huge Model 100 user, but I maintain Fedora packages for a number of CoCo-related tools, FWIW... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you [email protected] might be all we have. Be ready.
