On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 04:46:28PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 05:30:03PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Michael Elkins: > > > > FYI, there are nightly snapshots here http://dev.mutt.org/nightlies/ > > > which avoid the need to have the developer toolchain installed. > > > > Michael, kind of off topic, I know, but why would you want to > > discourage people from learning the developer toolchain? > > I think the point is that minimizing the build dependencies for people > who aren't developers should reduce build problems quite a bit.
There's another issue and as a Solaris user I'm painfully aware of it ;-) As you get further and further away from Linux as in Linux -> BSD UNIX -> Solaris -> other UNIX etc. the typical app written for Linux is less and less likely to build without pain either because of compiler, library, prereqs or other problems. Many apps don't even seem to get tested anywhere but Linux. Building apps isn't the best use of most peoples' time. If you have a trustworthy place to get the apps you want that's a good way to go. -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org attachments / \ Code Blue or Go Home! Encrypted email preferred PGP Key 2048R/DA65BC04
