Re: Binary distributions [ was Re: [PROPOSAL] fix for bad Xrefs ... ]

Tuesday, 9 June 1998


        Darryl Okahata <darrylo(a)sr.hp.com&gt; writes:

...
 1. The XEmacs distribution is repackaged and compressed into a
    "proprietary" format.  While you might be able to call this "mere
    aggregation", I think this is stretching the point, as XEmacs is
    not in a form that is not easily separated from InstallShield. 
But of course it is, if we ship full XEmacs sources on the same CD,
separately from InstallShield.

...
 2. The XEmacs distribution is repackaged into a single, large
    executable, which also contains large parts from InstallShield.
    This is the most useful form (just run the executable to install
    XEmacs), but I have difficulty conceiving this as an
    "aggregation".  Yes, there is a precedent in self-extracting
    executables, but this is more than just a self-extracting
    executable.  I think of this as a "work as a whole". 
I have difficulty thinking of this as "work as a whole", and so do the 
Cygnus folks.  I'll send a query to Stallman.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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