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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: Making binary groups obsolete (was Re:Are binary groups necessary?)
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Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 16:20:23 EDT
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>Can we keep it to an adult level?

Obviously not.

In the Macintosh world, most of the binary stuff posted is stuff posted from
off the net -- gotten from a source and passed around.  There is no source
available in any way, shape, or form.  It has also been shown that for the
Mac sources are actually larger and less useful than binaries -- less useful
because there are enough different development environments that the only
way of ensuring that someone can use something is by passing the compiled
application.

Frankly, I would guess that few people want or need sources.  If most of the
Mac stuff came to me in source form, I'd probably trash it untouched -- I
don't have the time or inclination to try to convince something to compile
just so I can see if I want to use it, and I certainly wouldn't bother
hacking soemthing from Aztec C to Lightspeed simply because some "higher
authority" has decided that binaries are not acceptible to the network.

Remember, what works for Un?x systems may not work as well for other
operating systems.  Don't over-simplfy your reality.

chuq
Chuq Von Rospach	chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

We live and learn, but not the wiser grow -- John Pomfret (1667-1703)