Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Release strategy

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

   From: sh...@al...
   Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:27:42 +0900

   > 1) The current makefile situation is basically silly.  It's just the
   >    generated makefiles, plus a handcrafted one I threw together.  So
   >    we probably need some kind of configure script (which seems like
   >    overkill in a way, but maybe this project isn't so tiny after all),
   >    or the like.

   I'll see what I can do here.  I'll try to upload a conf script along with
   the escp2 to pnm converter.  Expect something Sunday night JST, at the latest.

Thanks.

   > 4) Decide if we want to ship any prepackaged binaries (the obvious is
   >    Red Hat RPM's, but one of our group who's having some problems with
   >    his Sourceforge account but who wants to join, Daniel Egger, works
   >    for SuSE, and I run SuSE at home, so we might have some controversy
   >    there :-) )

   Don't forget Debian packages!

That's part of the reason I'm not convinced we want to distribute
stuff in precompiled binary form -- too many corner cases, and too
much risk of offending someone.  Of course, if you want to build the
Debian packages :-)

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