I understand that. But still, managing source builds is a lot of work when multiplied by 10+, even when the software is "done". I don't want to have to build it even once. Right now, I can install many, many packages using Fink/apt-get/yum with basically one command: "fink install ..." or "apt-get install ..." or "yum install ..."
.hc
On Aug 11, 2006, at 12:52 PM, B. Bogart wrote:
Hey Hans,
I think Johannes's real argument is that FTGL is "done" and is probably not going to change at all anymore. Due to this it takes less time to build the FTGL static libs on each platform than it is to make FTGL play nice in the autobuild system, when the sources will not change. Of course bugs *could* come up though...
Seems like freetype2 compiles fine from the cmd line for all platforms.
So whats the next step?
..b..
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
We are talking about managing files on 10+ machines running Windows, Mac OS X 10.3 and 104, and Ubuntu, Fedora Core, and Debian, on PowerPC and x86. I have better things to do that track down all this stuff and build it from source.
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