[openbeos] Re: What happened to BeOS in your OpenBeOS plans?
- From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,"Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:18:24 -0600
On Friday 18 January 2002 19:30, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> > >Well there is another issue. When OpenBeOS is to the point
> > >that linux was say, at Rev 1.0, people will want to download
> > >it and compile it. And that means that you will either need to
> > >rewrite it all to use make or you will have to provide a runtime
> > >version of "jam" just for OS compilation.
> >
> > This is really a non-issue since we can make prebuild binaries
> > available
> > all over the place: openbeos.org, bebits; heck, we could even put it
> > in
> > the source tree (not saying we should).
>
> You will *really* appreciate batch building the release at some point.
> Trust me on this. Also, lots of people like to compile it for
> themselves.
> -Nathan
Just look at BeBits. IIRC, when there are source and binary packages,
the source package gets aroudn 40% of the number of hits that the
binary does. And, of course, OSS stands for open SOURCE software.
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timothy.covell@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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