[imp] Tarball with all sources in it

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 01:49:23PM -0700, Travis Zadikem wrote:
> A few friends of mine have been looking at IMP/HORDE
> for a while, but keep getting shyed away because of
> all the downloads that they have toget first (i.e.,
> PHP4, APACHE, openssl (if they want ssl), imp, horde,
> etc).  Why doesn't someone create a tarball with all
> the sources in it.  That way a person can just
> download the tarball, unzip it and then go into each
> directory and run the make for each particular
> program.  This would save a lot of time in the long run.
> 

Why don't you use an operating system that comes with
a useful base set of programs?

OpenBSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD all qualify, as do a number of
Linux distros with packaging systems that make it easy
to install stuff like Apache+mod_ssl.

Do you ask perl based programs to bundle perl as well?

Anil