On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 07:05:08PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Amir> It would probably be a good idea also to include the lyx
> Amir> executable, in case people don't want to play with inst. For
> Amir> example, I think a lyx executable plus a tar.gz of the lyxdir
> Amir> (what becomes /usr/local/share/lyx) might work.
>
> >From what steve told me, what he has is the Irix equivalent of a
> rpm. So everything is in there.
>
>
> Amir> In fact, can we create a lyx-share.tar.gz, so that a person
> Amir> could download the executable and then untar the rest in, e.g.,
> Amir> /usr/local/share? That would make installation very simple,
> Amir> right? Or would it not work because LyX needs stuff compiled
> Amir> into it (but if that's the case, how can you download an
> Amir> executable anyway?) Then anyone could download the executable
> Amir> for their platform plus the share tar.
>
> What's the point? Help people who want several architectures?
Um, that's one possibility. The real reason is that I have an SGI and I only
use inst for stuff from SGI; I would probably prefer to just download a tar
file & a binary. In addition, other architectures probably don't have this
inst thing (or RPM, or whatever).
-Amir
