From: lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka) Subject: Re: Linux Standards Need Improvment Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 03:55:09 GMT
In article <1992Dec31.103122.24409@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>jbh@feenix.metronet.com (Justin B Harvey) writes:
>>I think that each software package should have a universal standaard
>>file or directory of the files that are needed to compile or run
>>the program or util. I find it very confusing to figure out what
>>to ftp.
>
>Are you volunteering to write and maintain the stuff?
>
>Well, _somebody_ has to volunteer. It ain't happening by itself.
How about having a group of people getting a directory in an archive
and setting up a kind of a standard source/binary tree?
386BSD has a wonderful example of this (try telnetting to ref.tfs.com)
It's a 386BSD machine on the net, you can actually use it for
browsing around and seeing what a wonderful thing a PC-*ix is.
Having something like that for linux would, in my opinion,
be a BIG win. You can compile a new kernel there (if your machine
or harddisk is slow, there are plenty of ready-made ones,
just about all the ported packages are installed there, etc. etc.)
Now, who with an admin access to the net will volunteer their
machine for this? If there's a machine, I'm volunteering to be
an assistant administrator.
TJL