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wxWidgets dependency pushed me away to Eclipse

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thomas:

--- Quote from: anerbenartzi on August 13, 2008, 10:44:14 pm ---In the Linux community, it is believed to be OK to give people non-working downloads that require others (which may require others (etc.)).
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Hahaha exactly my feeling :)
But you know, the problem is really Linux per se. It's such a darn non-standard mess. There are so darn many distributions, and none of them are compatible with any other. It is really aggravating for the developer(s) of a project to provide binary builds only for the most important "mainstream" distros (that's already half a dozen builds).

I'm not saying that this makes it ok, it certainly isn't ok. As a user, you feel like you have a right to get something that works without having to spend an entire afternoon, and of course you do. But it's maybe understandable from the point of the developers/maintainers too, who need to do this in their free (unpaid) time.

Krisando:
I'm glad there's others who feel like me :P.

It's still a better choice than Windows. ;)

MortenMacFly:

--- Quote from: thomas on December 13, 2010, 01:47:02 am ---There are so darn many distributions, and none of them are compatible with any other. It is really aggravating for the developer(s) of a project to provide binary builds only for the most important "mainstream" distros (that's already half a dozen builds).

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I fully agree. I've the same issue with another (commercial) project currently. Everybody uses his own distro and (not enough) in addition there are lots of color schemes and windows handlers even for one distro.

I can't do it for my stuff, but for C::B I was hoping we could use the build abilities of sourceforge.net. IMHO they offer a wide range of automated builds. Has anybody experience with these?!

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