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Re: Binary distribution |
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Wed, 3 Aug 2011 00:03:37 +0000 (UTC) |
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh <at> octave.org> writes:
> Windows and Macintosh OS
> users prefer to go digging through webpages and clicking on download
> links on individual project pages to get their software.
Closed OS'es make it really hard to track dependencies, so one just wants to
download a big statically linked bundle that works. There might be extra
storage wasted, but it doesn't really matter.
(On my mac or unix machines I control, I try to build by hand and install into
/usr/local/, for the record. I am forced to use Windows at work, and I don't
even want to waste my time learning how to manage libraries on that OS.)
> Many other
> free projects distribute binaries just this way, treating Windows and
> Macintosh differently.
Yep.