Dear Andy, On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Andrew Fant <[email protected]> wrote: > This isn't a big issue for me, per se. My motivation for asking > was part of thinking about cleaning up the build process a little and > looking ahead to the possibility that people might want to build binary > packages, either for public distribution or for internal use (IT types > get all excited about package management and that sort of best-practices > thing).
Though I have to admit that I don't get excited about package management, I do recognize its importance. :-) As part of cleaning up the build documentation, we can take a swing at some docs for packaging binary distribs. This is hopefully mostly going to be straightforward provided one can assume the existence of particular shared libraries/DLLs on the target machines. I'm thinking mainly of boost and lapack/blas (as well as the usual libc/libstdc++ problem, but that's a problem of a different order of magnitude). Thanks for the comments and please remain patient as we try to find a solution. Best regards, -greg
