Re: 0.3.5 preview

Posted by Luigi Ballabio-2 on Mar 31, 2004; 12:44am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/0-3-5-preview-tp10526p10536.html

On 2004.03.30 19:47, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> That said, I think my point still applies. Either we ship 'source
> only' (with a possible exception for win, and maybe os x), or we ship  
> source as well as prebuilt. As you seem to have opted for choice two,  
> I personally would find it natural to give Debian the same shelf  
> space as you allocated to RH/FC.

Dirk,
        from the download page, I gather we're actually going for  
choice one: the quantlib rpm is a packaging of the sources (don't ask  
me what use that is--I don't know)

As for shelf space, we're shipping rpms only because RH users (poor  
souls) don't have a central package repository. Personally, as a Debian  
user, I'd rather use apt-get than downloading and installing a .deb  
manually---especially in the future, as dependencies on the Boost  
packages will arise. The same applies to Mac OS X: as soon as the  
packages are ready, an entry will appear which says "Fink packages are  
available in the 10.3/unstable tree."

Anyway: I modified the download page. May you check it out?

Later,
        Luigi