[Radiance-dev] Re: compiling radiance

[Lars O. Grobe]

Isn't a file INSTALL in the ray directory the right place to collect all 
this information? Having one section "old distributions" in such a file 
would allow to add information on sources such as backports, how to 
compile on old linux distributions and such. Here is also the place to 
collect hints on systems such as solaris, os x, the various windows 
ports - even if we have only urls to sites describing the procedure, 
that way users having problems to install could have a start. In the 
very beginning, the options

a) binaries from radiance-online.org and radsite
b) binaries coming with distributions
c) compiling from source (generic using makeall install) should be present,

than all the special work-arounds.

I have an ubuntu box running, is there need for an ubuntu maintainer? Be 
aware that I have no (aka zero aka nul) experience with package building 
except making my own ones, but I guess that building on top of Bernd's 
debian work, there are few changes to expect.

Lars.