bug-mailutils
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: troubles compiling mailutils


From: Jeff Bailey
Subject: Re: troubles compiling mailutils
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:13:55 -0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 08:27:14PM -0500, xystrus wrote:

> > Redhat 6.2 is about 2 years old, so is not a particularily good
> > base to work from.  I strongly recommend Debian, since it's quite
> > easy to keep up to date.

> This is not a very good argument for the following reasons:

> The GNU project has, as its stated goal, the ability to replace
> proprietary Unix software on as many platforms as possible.

I refer you to http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_27.html#SEC27

> Telling people to run debian in order to run your software is
> completely counter to the goals of the GNU project.  You might as
> well be working for Compaq or Microsoft if you want people to only
> run your favorite platform.

While I go out of my way to make sure that my projects run on as many
platforms as possible, I don't go out of my way to help people on any
platform compile prerelease software from CVS.

Since he hadn't found the README-alpha file and had never encoutered a
project in CVS that required `autogen.sh', I felt it prudent to steer
him to the only distribution that has mailutils available for it.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

-- 
"Frankly, trying to turn Windows into a decent educational software
development platform is about as fun as jumping naked into a pit of
rabid wolves."
 - As seen on slashdot



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]