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Re: Open Letter to all open source developers

Posted By: Darien, on host 141.154.162.66
Date: Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 20:54:20
In Reply To: Open Letter to all open source developers posted by Dave on Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 14:09:50:

> If you insist on distributing your program only in source code, please include a working Makefile and configure script. To get your program to compile and install, here's all I should have to do:
>
> ./configure; make; make install

... And on the other side of the coin, if you insist on distributing your program in some garbage proprietary binary format like RPM, the very least you could do is provide source packages with working makefiles.

Dar "the whole world should just go back to using .tgz" ien

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Re: Open Letter to all open source developers - Dave - Wed, 10/2/2002, 12:10:12

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