Subject: Re: Re Mightly Builds
From: Thomas Briggs (tom@sane.com)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 07:42:59 CDT
After thinking long and hard about how to make my point without starting
a flame war (and I may already be too late on that account), I've decided
that I can make my point with one, simple, time-tested cliche:
If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
-T
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Lehmann" <aaronl@vitelus.com>
To: "Thomas Briggs" <tom@sane.com>
Cc: <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: Re Mightly Builds
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 05:40:58PM -0400, Thomas Briggs wrote:
> >
> > Hrm... that makes the score:
> >
> > PKZip: 2
> > Aaron: 0
>
> Uhhm... I don't get it.
>
> Some files in the distribution were zipped for distribution and
> immediately unzipped by the makefiles for installation. This seemed
> silly to me as these files are distributed compressed anyway (tarball,
> zip or cvs -z3) so you gain nothing by the repetitive compression. I
> didn't really care about the repetitiveness, but I didn't have unzip
> installed and I didn't want to get it just so I could install AbiWord,
> especially when the files were zipped for no reason that I can see.
>
> Theoretically this should be an improvement for Windows too, as unzip
> is no longer required and there is no extra step of unzipping
> already-compressed files. If I messed something up for the Windows
> build, please let me know as I have no way of seeing how things will
> turn out on proprietary, non-free platfroms that I do not agree to the
> licenses of.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. By the logic of
> compressing the dictionary files, wouldn't it make sense to zip every
> single .cpp file and have them unzipped at compile-time by the
> makefiles?
>
> > You guys did't think I was gonna pass that one up, did you? :)
> >
> > -The Windows Weenie
>
>
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