[bind10-dev] Big fat tarball for releases?

[Anand Kumria]

Hi,

On 18 July 2011 16:48, Shane Kerr <shane at isc.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> As I was downloading building packages for the various BIND 10
> dependencies last week, I thought, "maybe we can just put all of these
> in a tarball".

Ugh. As someone who has packaged things for Debian - and does
occassionaly for other distributions.

Please no.

If a SysAdmin trying to get BIND 10 working from source is not able to
peruse the INSTALL which would list the dependancy, then why are you
spending time supporting them (or indeed, shipping any form of
documentation in any source tarball).

[snip]

> The upsides are that people can just download a single tarball
> and ./configure && make && make install. :)
>
> Thoughts?

People already have to have a compiler, various header libraries and
other things installed.

And, as you say - the libraries themselves do not change often - for
most people downloading and compiling these libraries (if their
platform does not already provite them).

Regards,
Anand