Generic binary tarball for Linux?

• Jan 6, 2012 - 12:18

OK, this may not exactly be a request for a feature, but this forum is my best guess about where to put this request. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong. (I originally submitted it by e-mail as a "general inquiry," and Thomas, who replied, suggested I should put it on the forum.)

Mac and Windows users do not have to compile MuseScore before using it; I think it's only fair that Linux users shouldn't have to compile it either. We are not still in the primitive pre-Slackware era of Linux development. For Linux, however, I'm only seeing (1) a source tarball that needs to be compiled, and (2) a few distro-specific binary packages.

What I would like to see is a generic, pre-compiled "Slackware-style" binary tarball for Linux. This would provide a basis from which MuseScore could be quickly packaged for many different distributions, not just a few big ones, with no duplication of effort in compiling the program again and again for each distro. Unfortunately I'm no good at compiling programs myself (all my packages for Puppy Linux, my favorite distro, have contained either pre-compiled binaries or scripts to be run by external interpreters), but I figure there must be somebody in the MuseScore team of volunteers who could produce a MuseScore 1.1 binary tarball (standard x86-32) for Linux, and similar tarballs for future releases.

If you're there, whoever you are, would you please produce the tarball and announce that it's available? Thanks for any assistance you can provide!


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