Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 18:47:35 01/05/03
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On January 04, 2003 at 06:04:59, Tapio Huuhka wrote:
>There seems to be RHIDE for Linux available at http://www.rhide.com/ /downloads.
>Built with SuSE 7.2. If that doesn't work with Redhat why not switch to SuSE or
>Debian?
>
>Tapio
RedHat has the biggest market share.
Some unification MUST happen in Linux distros. It is Sci-Fi to believe that you
can just release a program as source code and people just need to recompile it
with their distros to make it work.
It simply does not work. For a zillion of reasons I don't want to explain here.
I hate to download a i386.rpm that has not been designed for my distro, try to
make it work and finally fail because of minor details (missing libs, different
config files and so on).
For a program to work, it must be tested and debugged under several specific
versions of an OS. Then you can be sure that it works fine under these versions
(read: distros) and people who will download it can be sure (or almost) that it
will work as long as it has been certified for the distro they are using.
My intention is to release a version of Chess Tiger for Linux that will be
tested on a range of distros. Or to release an i386.rpm for each distro that has
been tested. For the other distros, I will simply tell users NOT to use it.
At first I will only support RedHat and maybe Mandrake.
Christophe
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