On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Szak�ts Viktor wrote: > Besides the packaging (.deb/.rpm/.tgz), I also wonder why > we need to create one for every distro. > And could we possibly do anything to make Harbour > "distro-independent".
We cannot due to different binary dependencies in different Linux distribution. I do not believe that we will find anyone who can precisely document all binary dependencies inside compiled Harbour binaries and then will have enough knowledge about binary compatibility in other packages and distributions to be sure which combinations do not create potential troubles. Maybe in the future Harbour will be default part of the most popular distributions so binary distribution will not be our problem. >> Why harbour have different binary version (fedora,mandriva,suse ubuntu) >> instead qtcreator seem have one unique binary version The above is not true. QT is distributed with separate binaries by each Linux distribution which supports it (today it means each distro which supports XWindow) so there are hundreds or rather thousands of independent binary QT distributions. best regards, Przemek _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
