I'm glad you agree with me <grin /> However, look at the .srpm download counts - there seem to be quite a lot of RedHat (or other rpm distros) who ARE using the source.
Besides, RedHat isn't the only retarded configuration situation - see my comments to Falk re HPUX... And the diatribe about where pcap.h is installed under Win32... Still, the configure.in is going to grow quite a lot (due to white space, comment boxes, indentation, etc.) even after I rip out the 12 or was it 22 places we used to look for openSSL in... -----Burton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ntop-admin@;unipi.it]On Behalf Of Christopher Hicks Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 10:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Ntop] Future version 2.1.52 (was: Say hello to RRDtool) On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Burton M. Strauss III wrote: > Wrong... that's a narrow-minded (RedHat) view of the world... Admittedly. You seemed to be saying 'this is going to be a pain for redhat folks' and I'm like 'most redhat folks are just going to install the rpm and not care' which your information seems to support: > Check the download counts at SourceForge... there are typically almost > as many source downloads as rpm downloads. So most of the downloads are the rpm, meaning that the spec file is doing it's job for most of the redhat users. And wouldn't most of the source downloads probably not be redhat users? > Plus, that totally excludes the downloads from snapshot (15GB in 3 > months) and Debian, etc. And each will hopefully have it's own spec file equivalent. The more general point from all of this would be that complicating the build scripts with ad-hocery isn't that effective these days. Ripping it out (as we're happy to hear you're in the process of doing) will certainly add some compile-time directives that people have to get used to, but it seems like the wisest thing to do. -- </chris> The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900) _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
