Re: [issues] Why eglibc does not provide tarball?

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 15 May 2009, Gaye Abdoulaye Walsimou wrote:

> Hello list,
> This is not really an issue, but it would be useful to have tarball
> and/or svn tags for each eglibc release.
> Why such things do not exist?
> Thanks

EGLIBC sources are for system integrators, who need a wide range of 
expertise and are considered unlikely to be behind restrictive network 
connections for which checking out release branches is a problem, or to 
have a use for a tarball with known bugs that are fixed later on the 
release branch.  They are not an end-user product for ordinary GNU/Linux 
distribution users, and are not useful to build on their own without the 
rest of the system using them, but are something for those building a 
GNU/Linux system from scratch who have the expertise in the many different 
areas of such a system needed to do so and avoid the many pitfalls that 
arise in the process.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx