[Radiance-dev] Re: Radiance in Debian

[Bernd Zeimetz]

>> Among other reasons, it only would make sense for people who
>> don't care which version they are using, which is relatively rare
>> with Radiance. Those who actually work with this stuff will
>> easily have several different versions on their system for
>> various purposes. An install procedure that does its job right
>> would take care of that as well.
> 
> It's not the job of a distribution to take care for specialized
> installations. That's why you can download the source using your
> favorite package management tool and recompile it. Then you're also free
> to install to /usr/local or /opt.

If you're talking about modifying the source to get a different version
for different things - that's also not my job. If there's a need to add
specialized programs there should be a development package, which
provides the necessary headers and (statically linked) libraries. Moving
the most common (and not changing) functions into a shared library would
also be an idea for the future. It doesn't make sense to recompile the
whole package if you need an additional tool for one project, or if you
need to change one function.


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Bernd Zeimetz
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