Lucas Heijst <[email protected]> writes: > Tom, Vince and Greg, > > For users with a limited knowledge of Linux the installation of weewx > should be a few (simple) installation steps as it always was before.
Yes, but you are blurring: Things weewx depends on decide to use languages that are not compatible with the amount of RAM that weewx could fit in. "Simple steps" presupposes binary packages for some set of operating systems, operating system versions, and CPU types. There are a vast number of these. Almost always most of them do not have binaries. I ask you to stand in solidarity with me as I request pre-built binaries for NetBSD 10 vax! But seiously, the world is much more than a few distributions of GNU/Linux on about 4 CPU types. and not addressing: It is generally the responsibility of projects to provide source code, and packaging systems (which GNU/Linux "distributions are) to provide binaries for users. For the latter point, Tom may take a more expansive view. In a project I maintain*, I do not, and users not finding binaries that work for their is not allowed in the bug tracker because it is not a bug in the source code. * not named to avoid derailing this -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/rmisfbe7va7.fsf%40s1.lexort.com.
