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.

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