Re: policy regarding redistributable binary files in upstream tarballs
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> In my experience, many upstreams have an aversion to an explicit build
> step, because they see VCS as not only a VCS, but also as an end-user
> distribution platform.
I would suggest that VCSen are for developers, packagers and advanced
users, most end-users need binary packages they can run not source
packages or VCSen, which are for development/packaging. Upstreams that
want to cater to end-users can distribute prebuilt binary packages
separately, in separate branches, zip/tarballs, binary packages or
"app" installers.
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bye,
pabs
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