In article <Xns### [at] 204213191226>,
 Tom Galvin <tom### [at] imporg> wrote:

> > The source code should compile on any Linux or Mac OS X machine, 
> > it is no harder than installing a binary.
> 
> I can understand the effort required to provide binaries for multiple 
> platforms... But ...please reread that statement with your user hat on.  

Maybe a clarification is needed: providing command line binaries would 
not make it any easier.

It is really true, installing from source is a matter of typing a 
slightly different command at a terminal. This is more work than 
"installing" the GUI version (which on the Mac, consists of putting the 
main folder somewhere convenient), but as I said, I can't help that. 
Making a binary distribution for the CLI version would be a fairly large 
amount of work (larger than several patches I've done), figuring out how 
to replicate the install process the makefile uses, and it would not be 
any easier.

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