On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:33:35PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2005 10:05:34 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > > No hacks needed; you just have to embrace reality. > > The reality is that 95% of computers run Windows which is very good at > supporting developers who distribute binaries in this way. On Linux > there's all kinds of gotchas you just Have To Know which is silly and > unproductive - worse, people only find out about this stuff _after_ they > get burned by it.
And Linux is different. Passing around binaries is a stupid idea anyway, fortunately we don't need to do that anymore most of the time.