Re: gcc for winders

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:35:54PM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> 
> One item: if the user clicks "download" and goes to the releases.html
> page, it is not made clear enough to beginners that these are source
> code releases, and that they are of no use to people who don't already
> have a compiler on their system and who don't feel comfortable with
> building code from source.

People who don't already have a compiler could definitely use a pointer
to possible locations where they can download a reliable precompiled binary.

But... it's arguable that people "who don't feel comfortable with building
code from source" are at the wrong place entirely, since that's the whole
point of a compiler.  :-)


Phil

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