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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Drawterm on Mac Mini w/Ubuntu Linux
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:06:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d068e3fe33f48ae871763fd4cd4a45fc@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d375e920601161725v6413a720uf7cac8445fa766b1@mail.gmail.com>

> Why the hell do we bother distributing binaries for anything but windoze
> anyway? They only confuse people and make sure we have to keep them in sync
> with the sources.

linux, solaris, and others often do not (more often than not) come with
the compilers (``development environment'') installed these days, and it's
a nuisance to have to install all that just to have the single executable, drawterm,
especially if you don't own the system from which you're trying to escape to sanity.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-17 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-17  1:14 [9fans] " Gregory Pavelcak
2006-01-17  1:19 ` Russ Cox
2006-01-17 11:17   ` Gregory Pavelcak
2006-01-17 12:00     ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-17 21:11       ` Gregory Pavelcak
2006-01-17 21:40         ` Russ Cox
2006-01-17 22:08           ` Gregory Pavelcak
2006-01-17 22:13             ` Russ Cox
2006-01-17 22:28               ` Gregory Pavelcak
2006-01-17 22:55                 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-01-17 22:33         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-01-17 21:41           ` Gregory Pavelcak
2006-01-17 22:40           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-01-18  0:37           ` Sven Moritz Hallberg
2006-01-17  1:20 ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-01-17  1:22 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-01-17  1:25 ` [9fans] " Uriel
2006-01-17  1:34   ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-01-17  1:40   ` Russ Cox
2006-01-17  7:32     ` lucio
2006-01-17  7:29   ` lucio
2006-01-17 20:40     ` Micah Stetson
2006-01-17 10:06   ` Charles Forsyth [this message]

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