Windows [Re: Release Plan]

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Hi Arrigo,

On 19/11/2019 10:54, Arrigo Marchiori wrote:
> I developed a small build system:
> https://github.com/ardovm/rdiff-backup-build
> that makes an self-contained EXE file (as did previous stable
> releases) starting from the sources of librsync and rdiff-backup.

Does your Windows binary send back a proper version with `rdiff-backup 
--version` or only DEV?

> It can also make self-contained binaries for Linux, and possibly other
> Unix-based systems (to be tested).

I won't keep anybody from doing it, but not exactly the Linux/Unix way 
IMHO... I'd go for wheels as main artifact from the project and let 
package maintainers from the distros take care of their favorite format 
(RPM, DEB, ...).

Thanks for your participation,
Eric
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