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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Anyone ported scheme? Date: 11 Feb 1994 14:25:15 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 13 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.94Feb11092515@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <2ip2gh$3q1@news.csus.edu> <MYCROFT.94Feb7200148@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <2ja31b$4af@u.cc.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of 9 Feb 1994 07:23:23 GMT In article <2ja31b$4af@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes: Is there a particular reason for the binary-only packaging? Um, do you know *anything* about how MIT Scheme is packaged? There is one source distribution for N machines/OSes, and one binary distribution for each machine/OS. People can already get the source, but they will find it very difficult to bootstrap without binaries.