Subj : Re: Icy Draw 0.4.0
To   : Omnibrain
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Feb 18 2025 07:54 pm

-=> Omnibrain wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ga> Yes, there are lots of different ways.  I'd suggest only releasing the
 Ga> source code and let people build it themselves.

 Om> Source code is always released.

Yes, I saw that, but it is difficult/convoluted to get it built, and I 
build stuff fairly often.  Having to install a bunch of Rust stuff seems 
a little out of the "normal way".

 Ga> Okay, thanks for the clarification.  All of that seems a little....
 Ga> intrusive... and most people are not going to jump through those hoops,
 Ga> in my opinion.  Maybe I'll give it another look sometime.

 Om> Not sure if all are still required. Haven't tried on a clean system for
 Om> years. But if someone can remove some deps: I take pull requests :).

As a developer trying to offer a product to "users", perhaps you 
*should* try to build it on a clean system, because that's what nearly 
all users are.... using.

 Om> Most is because of the deps - it builds a gfx layer up from zero so the
 Om> UI libs need some low level stuff that wasn't shipped on the
 Om> distribution I had.

Okay.

 Om> Getting the up2ate minimum library set isn't on top of my todo list. As
 Om> long as it works on the build server I'm fine with it.

I appreciate that you're developing new/useful software... But as a 
developer wanting more people to use the software, isn't it a little 
narrow-focused to only worry about whether it works on your build server 
(only)?  People can't use/recommend it if they can't run it...



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