On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 at 11:36, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> > Is there any reason this isn't included in the Plucker Desktop
> > distribution? Why must I have to compile from source to get these tools?
>
> Probably because the desktop should be just that, a desktop.
>
> The other reason is probably that nobody has tried to port the
> code over to Windows (it IS "mostly" POSIX clean, but Windows itself isn't
> POSIX, unless you add layers like Cygwin on top of it), and provide
> pre-compiled Windows executables that would work on all platforms.
Well, I can understand it not being on the windows side (and no I'm not
volunteering ;-). Why isn't it on the linux side either?
$ uname -o
GNU/Linux
$ rpm -qa plucker*
plucker-desktop-1.6.0.0-1
plucker-1.6.1-1
$ locate unpluck
$ locate explode
[snip unrelated output]
$
It's not that I couldn't compile the code, I just find it much more
convenient to have a binary supplied to me.
(Aside: I use windows primarily since there's a palm conduit for my
workplace's central Oracle Calendar on the platform, and palm conduit
support in general is much better on Windows. There is a Calendar Client
for Linux, but no palm conduit....)
-alan
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