Author: Tapio Huuhka
Date: 08:56:34 01/06/03
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On January 05, 2003 at 21:47:35, Christophe Theron wrote: >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. Are you sure you are not letting the tail wag the dog? I mean that you probably will have to port your tools anyway, so why not use the distro that has what you need for development right now (RHIDE and gcc or are you going to use another compiler) and worry about the product distribution later. Just a thought that you might need gcc for compatibility reasons between Linux distros. I'm not pretending to be an expert, but this seems to be a reasonable question for a Linux newsgroup. Have you done that already? Tapio > >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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