Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of WhyPackagesExist

Timestamp:

May 11, 2007, 8:58:51 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

elb

Comment:

(typos)

WhyPackagesExist

@@ -6 +6 @@
 
                                                                                                                                                                                                    
-As a convience, an extra, we provide binary installers where we have                                                                                                                               
+As a convenience, an extra, we provide binary installers where we have                                                                                                                               
 developers able and willing to do so.  Thus we have developers with a                                                                                                                              
 significant number of redhat and fedora machines or chroot environments.                                                                                                                           
@@ -21 +21 @@
 We have no developers using Slack, and furthermore, several of us                                                                                                                                  
 actively dislike that distribution for its history of broken installs,                                                                                                                             
-as well as for its non-existant package management.  You cannot create                                                                                                                             
+as well as for its non-existent package management.  You cannot create                                                                                                                             
 true packages for Slack.                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                    
@@ -31 +31 @@
 
 
-While the same holds true of MacOSX, we do not provide OSX packages, prefering to point users to Adiumx, because Pidgin, as an X11 application, will never integrate into an OSX user's environment as cleanly as a native program can.  Ideally the Pidgwin version will be replaced by a more native Windows UI at some point, and we will be able to stop producing the Windows installers as well.
+While the same holds true of MacOSX, we do not provide OSX packages, preferring to point users to Adiumx, because Pidgin, as an X11 application, will never integrate into an OSX user's environment as cleanly as a native program can.  Ideally the Pidgwin version will be replaced by a more native Windows UI at some point, and we will be able to stop producing the Windows installers as well.