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Re: [libmicrohttpd] Small upgrade for MHD home page


From: Christian Grothoff
Subject: Re: [libmicrohttpd] Small upgrade for MHD home page
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:28:36 +0100
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I'm happy to update the link if you (or anybody else) wants to put up a
binary. Note that you should sign it with *your* GnuPG key, I do not
sign binaries created by other people.

On 11/15/2015 06:42 PM, silvioprog wrote:
> Hm... about Windows package, the problem is just to keep an old version on
> home page, because there is the first place that an user find the lib, and
> this very old version miss a lot of important fixes. :-/
> 
> I have two sugestions to distribute the Windows package on home page:
> 
> 1. keep only the latest compiled version (I can help you building the
> binaries);
> 2. keep only the sources of the latest version (eg
> libmicrohttpd-0.9.46.zip).
> 
> I'm expecting a better market to the lib. :-)
> 
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Christian Grothoff <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've bumped the source link to actually match the last release.
>> I don't build the W32 binary, so I cannot help it being outdated.
>>
>> Also, unlike NodeJS [1] our source build is not insane, and if you're
>> using MHD and you cannot build from source, it won't be of much use to
>> you. And for end-users, the respective operating system distribution
>> package manager should provide binaries anyway. As most end-users
>> wouldn't know how to check signatures on downloaded binaries, that's
>> also the only way to get them (relatively, see [2]) secure binaries.
>>
>> (That doesn't matter for W32, that's a lost cause anyway.)
>>
>>
>> Happy hacking!
>>
>> Christian
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> http://dthompson.us/reproducible-development-environments-with-gnu-guix.html
>> [2] https://gnunet.org/guix2015video
> 
> 

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