> compiling even my Spartan work environment from source code takes a full day
Maybe compiling everything on every computer is not the best approach...
Maybe compiling everything on every computer is not the best approach...
But some minority have to take the open SOURCE seriously, if we want it to actually work.
I'm part of that minority.
Why do it again and again? To be sure to be sure?
* Debian's work on reproducible builds will help here.
If you're working on a FOSS operating system (freeBSD), where one of the components/features you provide your users are the ability to install almost any software, customized to your needs (the ports system), you probably want that part of the system checked and working.
You know, dogfooding your own delivery, and I for one am glad someone is still willing to adhere to that standard of software development.
You can do this with Debian style packages too - it's perhaps a bit more involved, but entirely possible. And there's an argument for only customizing the few things you need to and just getting binaries for the rest.