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...

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