[K3d-development] A few words on binaries

[Timothy M. S. <ts...@k-...>]

I am increasingly of the opinion that we need to get out of the binary 
distribution business.  This is not to turn our noses up at people who 
can't build from source, rather it is about playing to the strengths of 
the FOSS community.

Someone who creates a one-off binary has done us a small favor that is 
soon obsolete; it doesn't take much additional effort to get a package 
into a distribution where it becomes a huge win for everyone - we want 
to encourage that.

So from this point forward, I don't think we should accept any binaries 
for the SF downloads page.  Again, not to discourage people who want to 
create binaries, we will continue to link to folks like Thac (who has a 
Mandrake package for K-3D 0.5, I just noticed) who are maintaining 
up-to-date, quality binaries.

The only exception to this should be Win32 installers, with the 
rationale that there isn't a dedicated distribution organization for 
Win32 - I like to think of it as an orphaned, unsupported platform ;)

Cheers,
Tim