Re: Installing Software

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Troy Will wrote:
> GNU Stow works on both binary and text files. For example, I've written a
> number of programs in Perl and maintain them as Stow packages.  A GNU Stow
> package is simply a set of files in a stow directory - it doesn't matter =
if
> those files are binary or not. Maybe I'm not understanding what you are
> referring to by binary package.

It's true that I hadn't considered programs written in an interpreted=20
language. I was referring to programs that must be compile before they can=
=20
be run. So...

> If I understand the documentation correctly GNU Stow is geared toward
> binary packages and that those packages must somehow already exist
> within the stow directory in order to be able to install them?

=2E..was intended to mean that such software must already exist in the stow=
=20
directory in its compiled form.

(And then continue with the rest of the email from there.)

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