Subj : Javascript TW2
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Al
Date : Sun Jan 07 2018 05:38 pm

  Re: Javascript TW2
  By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Sun Jan 07 2018 11:00 am

 DW> I think the problem is that I probably have to keep up with a
 DW> cvs/make/etc. routine pretty regular in order not to get out of sync at
 DW> some point. I am not a PC platform developer, or a bleeding edge user, so
 DW> I would not be one to do so.

You are on the bleeding edge here.. I find Synchronet to be very stable so no
worries.. :)

 DW> That is part of the reason I chose debian stable over slackware... I knew
 DW> I'd wind up screwing up a "compile the packages yourself" distro because I
 DW> would not keep up with every single release of my favorite packages. I
 DW> figured out that a release with prebuild binaries and package/dependency
 DW> management built in was going to be my friend. :)

I still consider myself a debianite. The stable release can get old, I think we
ran woody for 5 or 6 years before sarge was released but it certainly is
stable.

I took Slackware for a walkabout many years ago and I am still here. I might be
a slacker now. I have a hundred or two packages I build myself and update them
when they need it. One nice thing about slackware is that the build environment
is complete one you install it. No further button pushing is needed. It's a
good idea to keep things upto date though.

One thing I have found, at least with slackware is that there are a few
packages that need a real root shell to build successfully. If I build those
from a desktop terminal I need to source /etc/profile with a command like ".
/etc/profile". I build and run Synchronet as a regular user so I don't need
that for Synchronet and it may or may not be an issue for you.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al


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