Re: [boost] Re: boost RPM

From: Jens Maurer (Jens.Maurer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-02-16 16:47:29

williamkempf_at_[hidden] wrote:
> Why?  RPMs are hardly portable.  The Win32 platform (among others)
> won't know a thing about the .spec extension or file type and can do
> nothing with this.  autoconf is more portable, and even that leaves
> Windows high and dry for the most part.

Yes, of course.  But I'd like to avoid the situation that every
Linux distribution maker (currently > 100) creates his own, possibly
incompatible, boost.spec file.

Consider it a stopgap measure.

Jens Maurer