Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Dion_L_Johnson From: Dion_L_Johnson@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission Message-ID: <5353@cup.portal.com> Date: 12 May 88 04:16:45 GMT References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <537@sol.warwick.ac.uk> <4521@hoptoad.uucp> <396@pan.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 11 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.1680 I can well understand that there are good reasons for us (most of us) to want to have source code, but there are also sometimes good reasons to distribute binaries. Hasnt this topic been talked to death in other fora, at other times? Perhaps someone will post a summary about the good/bad points of each distribution scheme? Also, why is it that those who decry binaries do so with such vehemence? Finally, will the (someday) coming of widespread binary compatibility among at least some classes of systems affect the acceptance of binary distribution? comments? And should this be discussed somewhere else? thanks, - Dion