-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Rod Whitby wrote: |> And therein starts the decline of Openmoko application availability into |> the poor practices of the windows world ... | | ;-) It's really two different usage scenarios: one is the "nice and tidy | distribution", the other is getting something to build and, sometimes, | to disseminate it quickly. | | While there are people who indeed have the angelic patience to work in | distribution mode all the time, for most of us, this is just too much | pain and overhead. (Hi Andy ;-)
Hi yourself... I guess you must have started using Openmoko build system then because last time we spoke about it you were avoiding it same as me - -- for the same reasons. | Also, having a toolchain that makes it easy to cross-build from sources | will help a lot towards people not even wanting to download pre-built | binaries. This is completely backwards. I know you run Gentoo so maybe the insanity is normal for you, but if someone painstakingly equipped their box to build death-foo-libs package that has crazy build dependencies on automake 0.1 and emacs 0.01, and kindly packaged and made available the binary, why on earth should you ignore that and go through agonies setting up your box to regenerate exactly the same bits? They even give you a -dev package, after YOU compiled the thing there is NOTHING additional over just using the packages. Except what, a chunk of your life evaporated while you stared at things scrolling. What you should have said is: ''Also, having a toolchain that makes it easy to cross-build from PACKAGES will help a lot towards people not even wanting to BUILD STUFF THAT IS ALREADY BUILT AND USABLE.'' - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhGOH8ACgkQOjLpvpq7dMpdEwCglPhYYa6ZK7zIR7GdKtXp3qpc zzwAn3JcIXJJj/SU8hcO/8U8cVfIzAhR =TJSV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
