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developers:cwb32_plans [2011/03/06 22:56] – [Performance improvements] stefandevelopers:cwb32_plans [2011/03/06 23:02] – [Other open questions] stefan
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 ==== Other open questions ==== ==== Other open questions ====
  
 +  * How important is it to offer **binary packages** at least for the most common platforms?  Due to the use of [[http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/|GLib]] for Unicode support, it has become difficult to produce stand-alone binaries of CWB version 3.2, which has to be compiled from source code at the moment (after installing GLib and other external dependencies).
 +    * For Ubuntu, we could try to offer ''.deb'' packages that list the necessary dependencies, and let the package manager take care of the rest.
 +    * For Mac OS X, the usual strategy is to include "local" installations of the required shared libraries in the binary distribution, and link the main programs using relative paths (there are special tools in Mac OS X for this purpose).  
 ===== Feature requests for future releases ===== ===== Feature requests for future releases =====
  
  
 ===== Long-term goals ===== ===== Long-term goals =====
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