turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel) (10/15/86)
> Summary: let us have SOURCES > > [] > > The recent problems with ARC (& Uniterm?) indicate again that SOURCES > should be posted. Executables should ALSO be posted for people who > do not have the appropriate compiler. Note that I'm voting for BOTH. > (That's because whoever is paying for this e-mail is not me :-) > > - Moshe Braner your point is well taken but allow me to play devil's advocate... 1) the question of size and cost doesn't need restating, the sources for emacs are about 400K 2) not everybody has the same compilers, but we all have ST's 3) for evolving programs like emacs and others, posting the sources is an open invitation to chaos, it guarentees that there will be almost as many versions of the program as there are people with good ideas making the introduction of new versions a nightmare -- ---- These are days for the locust to eat - Winston Churchill Name: James M. Turner Mail: Imagen Corp. 2650 San Tomas Expressway, P.O. Box 58101 Santa Clara, CA 95052-8101 AT&T: (408) 986-9400 UUCP: ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!imagen!turner CompuServe: 76327,1575 GEnie : D-ARCANGEL