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Re: build2 [message #49330 is a reply to message #48960]

Sun, 28 January 2018 01:36

mr_ped
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Registered: November 2005
Location: Czech Republic - Praha

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So is this some kind of "repository"?

Who's signing/checking/publishing the files? Can authors of library publish directly? How is the originality of files authenticated? etc..

Looks similar to what we have in normal OS, but I personally prefer to build from sources as much as possible, due to review/security/preservation reasons, so I'm not big fan of things like maven or even "-dev" libraries packages in linux repositories, although already 98% of SW in my PC is from the distribution repository, so if it gets compromised, I will be probably hit much much sooner on regular SW than building compromised binary due to modified library.

Anyway, looks interesting, but I don't need to build anything for windows, so I will pass on this one. Smile

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