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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Putting my money where my mouth is
From:       "Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm () usm ! edu ! ec>
Date:       2003-02-26 18:56:47
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Mosfet wrote:

>A) I never said I would "demand" you compile source code. I said RPM's would 
>be supported. Several times. As a matter of fact I said source code wouldn't 
>be supported at first, and maybe not at all. But it would be nice for people 
>where binaries don't exist for their platform.
>
Oh. sorry.  It sounded like you felt that, in the end, binary packages 
would exist in a ratio of 10% with respect to source packages.  Which I 
feel shouldn't happen, because the distributor of a software package 
should go the extra (42) mile(s) and always provide binaries.

>B) I believe binary compatiblity is possible, just not likely and does nothing 
>for non-Intel platforms. Either way it does me little good because I am 
>starting to code this now and best case scenario is you wouldn't see binary 
>compatibility for months.
>
That's very true.

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