🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1239@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> jxp@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Joe Petrolito) writes:
>
>I'd like to make some suggestions regarding Gnuchess. Some days ago I posted
>a request in gnu.chess for a executable version of Gnuchess 3.0 for DOS.
>(I'd don't have a C complier, though we are supposed to be getting one soon..)
>It seems to me that it would be useful to include this in the distribution
>of Gnuchess, since it would save time for those who wish to run it only on a
>PC. Compatibility is not a problem and the 'exe' file could perhaps be encoded
>to ascii.

The problem with this, in general, is that there are thousands of
OS/Architecture combinations out there, and that everyone would like
to have a compiled binary for their OS/Architecture combination in the
distribution.  For instance, I'd like to just get binarys for:

	Sun-3/SunOS 4.0.3/X11R4
	Sun-4c/SunOS 4.0.3/X11R3
	DECStation 3100/UWS v2.1
	VAX/Ultrix v3.0
	PC/AT 386/ICS UNIX 2.0.3

It's simply impractical for the maintainers to provide binaries for
everything.  That's the reason GNU doesn't distribute binaries.  This
doesn't prevent some individual out there making the binaries
available to others.

Larry M. Augustin			ERL 414
lma@sierra.stanford.edu			Computer Systems Lab
lma@dayton.stanford.edu			Stanford University
(415) 723-9285				Stanford, CA 94305