On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Ruben Van Boxem
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 2011/4/29 NightStrike <[email protected]>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Earnie <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Ozkan Sezer wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Vincent Torri
>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>> hey
>> >>>
>> >>> did you remove the .la files ?
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Nope, didn't bother.  If theyare causing trouble, the developers can
>> >> remove them by themselves.
>> >>
>> >
>> > The .la files are specific to your environment.  Therefore they should
>> > not be distributed in binary packages.  I find it not very kind for the
>> > end user to have to worry about the contents of the distributed binary
>> > package because it screws up their environment since the distributor
>> > "didn't bother" and included files that pertain to his unique
>> > environment.
>>
>> Ozkan's builds are the best ones we currently have the capacity to
>> offer to our users.  The fact that he builds them at all is a godsend,
>> and I for one certainly won't inspect that gift horse's mouth.  He can
>> package them any way he wants (That's why it's a personal build and
>> not an official release).
>>
>> What's really important is that people that make builds stick around
>> to support them.  That's way more important than deleting .la files,
>> and he does a fine job of that.
>>
>> Keep up the good work, sezero.
>
> Hear hear. I agree. It's not that he constantly spews unnecessary updates
> that require us to redelete the .la files. And only sucky configury scripts
> misread them anyways.
>
> If I may be so blunt and rude, Ozkan, are there plans for a 4.6 build? Your
> 4.5 build is still my main compiler, which works very well. You see, C++0x
> is much improved yet again, and I'd like to "play" with its awesome features
> ;-)

Is 4.6.x not provided through the automated builds already?? There
should be no need for me to make such a build (and I am not using it
myself anyway :))

>
> Thanks,
>
> Ruben

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