Hello Eric, On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 07:48:27AM +0100, ewl+rdiffbac...@lavar.de wrote:
> Hi Arrigo, > > On 19/11/2019 10:54, Arrigo Marchiori wrote: > > I developed a small build system: > > https://github.com/ardovm/rdiff-backup-build > > that makes an self-contained EXE file (as did previous stable > > releases) starting from the sources of librsync and rdiff-backup. > > Does your Windows binary send back a proper version with `rdiff-backup > --version` or only DEV? It replies "rdiff-backup DEV". > > It can also make self-contained binaries for Linux, and possibly other > > Unix-based systems (to be tested). > > I won't keep anybody from doing it, but not exactly the Linux/Unix way > IMHO... I'd go for wheels as main artifact from the project and let > package maintainers from the distros take care of their favorite format > (RPM, DEB, ...). Yes, I also think that the package maintainers shall take care of their favorite format. I thought of self-contained binaries as the most straightforward solution for ``casual testers'' to test beta's and nightly builds. But I must confess I know nothing about Python wheels, so I might be trying to solve an non-existant problem. Best regards, -- rigo http://rigo.altervista.org
