[VM][UNIX] SHA uploaded to SourceForge

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Jan 22 20:03:53 UTC 2002


cg at home.cdegroot.com (Cees de Groot) wrote:
> Lex Spoon <lex at cc.gatech.edu> said:
> >Yes, but there are too many kinds of Unix for us to reasonably
> >pre-compile for all of them.  Unix folks are very used to running
> >"configure; make" -- but they need to have all the necessary source
> >files.
> >
> Why? I think we should strive to have single-click distributions available for
> the maximum number of platforms. All we need to have is:
> - cvs checkout; ./configure; make working (or the equivalent from VMMaker);
> - a small testsuite that serves as a sanity check that nothing went hopelessly
>   wrong (a rotating 3D bunny playing some MIDI while showing the latest
>   slashdot topics would probably excercise a decent part of the VM ;-))
> - one volunteer per platform that agrees to perform the build and the upload
>   two or three times a year. 
> It shouldn't be impossible...
> 


There are too many possible Unix configurations to build them all.  We
can certainly do 5-10 of the most popular ones, but that would be less
than 1% of the total.  For the others, it's very nice if we can provide
a complete source archive.



-Lex



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