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In article <1990Feb21.150131.10382@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> smith@darwin (Steven Smith) writes:
>Can someone tell me why MIT insists on shipping source only?  It seems to
>make little sense to ship 40meg of source so that people can generate 12meg
>of installed software (manual and all) after six hours of disk
>grinding.

There simply are too many different types of machines. And even for
one architecture, some people like /usr/lib/X11, others prefer
/home/local/X11/lib, and so on.

Also, remember that everytime there is a patch, The X Consortium, or
MIT, would to recompile the whole thing for N different machines.
Too much work.

>But it seems that a simple binary+library shipment is all that most people
>want anyway.

If there really is a need for this, some large Sun site, say, could
easily make available a SPARC binary dist on some machine. Sun.com
would be a good choice :-).

Remember, you get what you pay for ...

/Lars
--
Lars Fischer,  fischer@iesd.auc.dk   | One thing the UNIX system does not need
CS Dept., Univ. of Aalborg, DENMARK. | is more features.  -- Kernighan & Pike