From: Luigi B. <lui...@fa...> - 2004-03-31 08:43:03
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On 2004.03.30 19:47, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > That said, I think my point still applies. Either we ship 'source > only' (with a possible exception for win, and maybe os x), or we ship > source as well as prebuilt. As you seem to have opted for choice two, > I personally would find it natural to give Debian the same shelf > space as you allocated to RH/FC. Dirk, from the download page, I gather we're actually going for choice one: the quantlib rpm is a packaging of the sources (don't ask me what use that is--I don't know) As for shelf space, we're shipping rpms only because RH users (poor souls) don't have a central package repository. Personally, as a Debian user, I'd rather use apt-get than downloading and installing a .deb manually---especially in the future, as dependencies on the Boost packages will arise. The same applies to Mac OS X: as soon as the packages are ready, an entry will appear which says "Fink packages are available in the 10.3/unstable tree." Anyway: I modified the download page. May you check it out? Later, Luigi |