On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, James Carlson wrote:
Having developer (or perhaps better stated as "maintainer" or "distributor") provided binaries is great. You're right that it's a time saver for ordinary users.
Developers hardly ever produce binaries for distribution, and usually when they do, the available binaries have limited use and might not be refreshed as often they should.
It is helpful if OpenIndiana users provide login accounts for developers to remotely use in order to assure that the software they develop will compile and run under OpenIndiana.
Many developers are not wealthy, are time constrained, or have limited multi-platform experience. As a result, they may only have experience with one distribution of one OS.
With the availability of a development login account, these developers who only have experience with one target can learn that other OS targets are not like going to Mars and they can make the small adaptations necessary so that the the software they write just works.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn [email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
