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Re: default -g ??!?
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MK |
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Re: default -g ??!? |
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Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:55:51 -0500 |
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:17:14 -0600 (CST)
Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> wrote:
> The vast majority of Linux users install from binary packages, or via
> source-based install systems which assure that appropriate build
> options are applied. Very few build by hand and install under
> /usr/local.
True, but while I do not track binary downloads from debian, I do track
source downloads from my site. Also, I get some feedback from users.
Because versions of the project are currently in debian "unstable" and
"testing" repos (which are necessary before it can be qualified
"stable"), I am positive that *most* of my users are people
who download and build from the source.
Basically, I don't think source users should count as "second class
citizens" here.
> Those that do are likely to read the standard INSTALL
> file and therefore know what to do.
Maybe so, and maybe not. But regardless: it makes more sense to have
the default *appropriate for general use*, rather for a distro packager
(who's work I do appreciate!). Otherwise, I have to put a note in the
INSTALL: "To accommodate the constraints of distro package systems, you
will have to use a configure option or strip your binaries if you do
not want debugging symbols slowing you down".
I know that historically, that has been the practice, and I am arguing
against the grain.
> Since you found that gvim loads much quicker after it has been
> stripped, I must assume that you are using the Plan 9 OS rather than
> Linux.
No, linux. I build vim because I have yet to see a distro package that
is configured the way I want it (and no, the "vim-everything" packages
do not actually contain everything). Generally I just use apt or yum,
but for some particular things like this (or for projects such as my
own, which are not available as binaries for every distro), I source
build.
Also, if you are using a small or offbeat linux distribution, there's
surely a lot of software that simply is not available for it in binary,
but that can easily be built from source.
MK
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- Re: default -g ??!?, (continued)
- Re: default -g ??!?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/11/20
- Re: default -g ??!?, MK, 2010/11/20
- Re: default -g ??!?, Paul Smith, 2010/11/20
- Re: default -g ??!?, MK, 2010/11/20
- Re: default -g ??!?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2010/11/20
- Re: default -g ??!?,
MK <=
- Re: default -g ??!?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/11/20
- Re: default -g ??!?, Roger Leigh, 2010/11/20
- Re: default -g ??!?, MK, 2010/11/20
- Re: default -g ??!?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2010/11/20
- Re: default -g ??!?, MK, 2010/11/20
- Re: default -g ??!?, Miles Bader, 2010/11/20
- Re: default -g ??!?, MK, 2010/11/21
- reword documentation about symbol stripping (was: default -g ??!?), Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/11/21
- Re: reword documentation about symbol stripping (was: default -g ??!?), MK, 2010/11/21
- Re: reword documentation about symbol stripping, John Calcote, 2010/11/21