[PLUG] C programming

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 06:20 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>    Wonder why folks fear and avoid the 'configure; make; make install' dance.

Well, for openers, because not every package conforms to that schema,
and *effort* is required from the *developers* of the package to make it
that easy for the user. Second, because when it croaks, the user now has
to interact with the developers.

As you probably recall, I run Gentoo, which is mostly a
build-from-source distro, whose "packages" are mostly shell scripts to
build from source. I'm so used to it now, I don't give it a second
thought, but when I migrated from Debian (Woody) to Gentoo (1.4), my
compute and download resources were much less powerful than they are
today, and compile times were a significant expense.
> 
> Rich
> 
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