Re: GPL'ed OCR software

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >>2. The packaging stinks. This is actually good, because this guy is paying
> >>   lots of attention to the core content, not all the froo-furrah. Later he
> >>   can get fancy.
> >Not sure what you mean by this?  It's a single binary, what packaging
> >would he need.
> No man pages, the configure and makefile could be better. still using tar
> (not rpm), and the documentation is kind of sparse. Not a lasting black mark,
> but as this grows more parameters, that will become nessesary. Also, it is
> early life cycle stuff, this sort of thing should come (perhaps properly)
> later on.

If they used RPM instead of tar, then the discussion of configure scripts,
makefiles, packaging, and compiling becomes meaningless.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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