On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:43 AM, DRC <dcomman...@users.sourceforge.net>wrote:
> The pre-releases I used to provide were "cross-compatible" builds designed
> to work on a variety of Linux platforms. They were built that way because
> we were considering at the time merging TurboVNC with TigerVNC, and one
> requirement of that was having a single binary that any Linux user could
> install. I was also keen to issue pre-release binaries so VirtualGL users
> could evaluate the system relative to TurboVNC. Since I abandoned the idea
> of merging the two projects and ceased maintaining TigerVNC, no one has
> stepped up to take over the cross-compatible builds, and it doesn't look
> likely that anyone will. Red Hat is doing their own Fedora-specific builds
> and issuing pre-releases through Rawhide, and Cendio's builds are focused
> on delivery in the ThinLinc product. I'm not sure what the plan is for 1.3
> and what binaries, if any, will accompany that release. Since removing FLTK
> from the TigerVNC source tree, building all of the binaries that I
> delivered with 1.2 has become difficult, requiring some local
> customizations that I've submitted to this list (but not all of which have
> been incorporated into TigerVNC and FLTK.) This kind of goes with my
> previous statement that TigerVNC has become more of a vendor-supplied
> technology.
>
I started down the path of creating an EPEL branch for EL5, but the
policies regarding duplication of system libraries make it virtually
impossible to build an EL5 package that complies with FESCo rules. I gave
up on the idea of an EL5 branch for EPEL when I was told that I would have
to backport the code to make it work with the legacy system libraries. I'd
still be willing to maintain that RPM and provide it via TigerVNC's
download page (assuming that's OK with the other devs). The build is based
on DRC's build script so the resulting binaries could also be packaged as a
tarball and would likely function on other distros.
-brian
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