Re: Get rid of the Linux binary?

["Richard F Weber" <rfweber at link dot com>]

Well, I would think do one of several things

1) Offer binary .rpm's for RH6.x & RH7.x, as well as source .rpm's for 
other platforms.  Would take care of dependencies, and allow users on 
say Mandrake to download and install
2) Also offer .deb files, but it's a format you have to support that you 
may not want to.  But it's better for the karma.
3)

Another comment, as an Admin, I like using RPM's because it's easier to 
document how to install something, and just do an rpm -Uvh on it.  As an 
end-user, I think it's kind of cheesy (sorry, no offense intended) that 
RedHat doesn't have one of their tools packaged up in .rpm format for a 
RedHat user to install from. 

Also, is SourceNav going to be offered on the PowerTools CD for RH7.1?  
I'd even like to see it on the main distribution, but I don't know what 
determines whether something is on the main distribution or not.

SourceNav is a really nice tool so far, and sticking it with the RH 
distribution is a nice way to increase it's exposure, plus convince 
companies to use.  "Look, we should use SourceNav as our IDE because it 
comes free with the OS".  Sorry about meandering a little off topic.

--Rich

Mo DeJong wrote:

> It seems like the most serious problem folks
> have run into so far is crashing when running
> the Linux binary. This is most likely a
> glibc mismatch problem, and frankly we
> don't really want to deal with it.
> 
> I think we should just remove the "general"
> Linux binary. It simply does not work,
> people pull it down on some Linux box
> we have not tested on, it does not work,
> then boom we have a bunch of bug reports
> to deal with. I would rather just give
> Linux users the source code. Linux comes
> with a gcc, so there is no reason someone
> could not compile it from source.
> 
> We still plan on giving out RPMS for
> Red Hat 6.x and 7.x when the Tcl/Tk 8.3
> upgrade is done. Other folks have also
> done binary versions for other Linux
> distros. I think this is the right
> solution for everyone in the long run.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Mo DeJong
> Red Hat Inc
> 
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