Re: New RPMS: WindowMaker-0.51.0 and more.

[Maurice Hilarius <maurice harddata com>]

With regards to your message at 10:17 AM 01-31-99 +0000, Shane Sturrock.
Where you stated:
>
>Peter, it is great that you are doing all these RPMs but unfortunately
>for those of us with older machines (21064/21066 processors) your RPMs
>don't seem to work since they were compiled with instructions our machines
>don't support.  I tried to install your KDE-1.1 RPMs and it dies with a
>complaint about illegal instructions.  Can I suggest that if people are
>going to take on the task of compiling stuff and putting it up for
>download that they either stick to compiling for older generation
>processors or put up two versions.
>
>Dr. Shane Sturrock - http://nova.bru.ed.ac.uk/~sss
>Linux, a better WinNT than WinNT

Maybe you or someone else would be willling to volunteer to do this?

I think it is only fair to compliment Peter for all the work he has done,
and continues to do.
I feel that what you said would likely be construed as a criticism, and
that is just not fair. Peter did this work, in his own private time, for
free, and as a gesture of goodwill and kindness to many fellow users. To
knock his method or to say he is not thorough enough is not warranted.
As for his compiling for older machines, how is he supposed to test this if
he doesn't _have_ an older machine?


My $02 worth, anyway.

Best regards,

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