cg at home.cdegroot.com (Cees de Groot) is widely believed to have written:

> 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 ;-))
Sigh. I remember when being able t do 3+4 was considered a decent
ship-it check. And if you actually got '7' - well, yippee!
> - one volunteer per platform that agrees to perform the build and the upload
>   two or three times a year.
I suggested a compile farm some time ago; I think we worked out it
wouldn't take all that many machines and that in fact I already have
many of them. I think I'd prefer that somebody like Cees hosted such a
thing though, since he's used to handling machine explosions at 2am :-)

tim

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