Re: Open Source does mean easily re-compile-able

On 28.12.2024 03:07, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:44:10 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
 

On 28.12.2024 00:22, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:
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Compiling Thunderbird should be very easy indeed when we use Linux
distro's package management.

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You expect _users_ of tools to use a _development_ environment to fix
*inherent* shortcomings of a tool?

 
On Linux, there is no “development environment” versus “user environment”.
The same packaging tools work with both source code and built binaries.

You think it's normal that on a Linux installation where, say, no 'cc'
(as prominent example of a development tool) is installed the package
manager would first install ALL the necessary compilers and scripting
languages just to create a binary (as opposed to just installing the
binary)? - I'm not sure I understood what you were saying or aiming at
especially in context of what I had been saying.

For the Unix systems I worked with (commercial Unixes, Cygwin, Linux)
there was no development environment guaranteed to be in the default
installation.

Janis