On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:27:50PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > The biggest problem really is that this sort of thing is a lot of effort > for your average evenings-and-weekends open source hacker who wants to > distribute Linux binaries to his end users. Setting up and maintaining a > dedicated build box or chroot is an awful lot of work for these people, > even if it's do-able by commercial developers.
So don't distribute binaries. I'd much prefer binaries built either by myself or a qulified distribution packager anyway, for various reasons. > I'd really love to see a proper debate on the merits of this > backwards-compatible-only policy. It seems many of the things that cause > binaries built on new systems to not work on older ones are just the > toolchain automatically enabling optimisations and new features. That's > fine for people who compile everything themselves or use only RPMs built > for their exact distro version, but it's a problem for developers who > would rather have easy binary portability than these optimisations and > features. If want to to send around binaries use a non-GNU system.
