Re: [GD-Linux] ANN: Candy Cruncher for Linux shipped

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

"Ryan C. Gordon" wrote:

> "a slightly more compact install system" is to stick it in a tarball, in
> which case the complaint will be, "nice download size, but what do I do
> with this tar.bz2 file?"

Well, if you made it a bz2 file *perhaps* - but I doubt there are many
Linux users who couldn't cope with a '.tgz' file.
 
> Why don't people complain that there isn't a unified way to do ANYTHING in
> Linux instead? That would solve the problem much better...we could remove
> half of SDL's code, and 75% of the installer system.

I think there is a unified way: "tar xzf whatever.tgz ; ./configure ; make install"

That works OK for binaries too.

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