From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Reitter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The current rules for making Emacs binaries available on the net? Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 17:51:49 -0400 Message-ID: <9B30A326-3575-409D-B989-7D981A845C8D@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273960326 23631 80.91.229.12 (15 May 2010 21:52:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 21:52:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 15 23:52:04 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODPH9-0004tv-Cv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 23:52:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44652 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ODPH8-0004Nr-M3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 17:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53428 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ODPH3-0004MG-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 17:51:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODPH2-0005PE-3r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 17:51:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:58651) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODPGz-0005Oa-MV; Sat, 15 May 2010 17:51:53 -0400 Original-Received: by vws7 with SMTP id 7so1516532vws.0 for ; Sat, 15 May 2010 14:51:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:mime-version :content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding :message-id:references:to:x-mailer; bh=w8sfzopJASrOZVmvgrpR5IKkkJZ4PVro7+BnSUXMHZc=; b=fbhmB+TC12/xyoQHC4zlTkWvwkrYQ2oAUPSYRKSwy03sPbGxjoo9Dc5eCYQxaTn97Z 254GI1jAUB6vfZ5JB07OBMhcCq6HE/+EY/37eUzEQKyy1XaTq8yk3SwEwJaOT1BIUUuY XYQW6C2OzeX0/2L9/k/tNbTHqC7nzG2Dj0aqs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; b=S/E/8Fe3y3dzG4l+5d9Z0u+L2zpoGMrma53NAun4t15gsEtoHbawrUjXh5hJ49yOy+ 7HCRGJIdwP6V+9LOXgie4/lEPrqCbEdI2s3c+ZJd/P79gaXyk4IHIHFPeXHxWwvEpKUP /G4SdXY+08KuYP9oICCdmZlAF0IypXG7tDaPQ= Original-Received: by 10.220.61.137 with SMTP id t9mr1477896vch.191.1273960312394; Sat, 15 May 2010 14:51:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.19] (pool-72-95-200-56.pitbpa.east.verizon.net [72.95.200.56]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i29sm17342595vcr.12.2010.05.15.14.51.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 15 May 2010 14:51:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:124815 Archived-At: On May 14, 2010, at 6:51 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote: >=20 > Now if someone distributes unpatched binaries built from Emacs sources > is it then enough to tell from where this sources can be downloaded > and what revision number the checkout had? Apart from the GPL, what is also important is to support the = sustainability of the project by animating people to write code and = contribute patches. In my experience, binary distributions are not necessarily productive in = that sense. It is important to make it dead-easy for people to install = the source distribution and build from it. Pre-requesites should be = spelled out, a standard build system and sequence (./configure; make; = make install) used, and so on. Fulfilling the GPL is just a minimum requirement.=