# Can we exploit binary builder as a general way to distribute softwares?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-we-exploit-binary-builder-as-a-general-way-to-distribute-softwares/32472>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** binarybuilder\
**Created:** [December 19, 2019, 7:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-we-exploit-binary-builder-as-a-general-way-to-distribute-softwares/32472 "2019-12-19T07:06:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![innerlee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b19c9b/32.png) [@innerlee](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/innerlee)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 7:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-we-exploit-binary-builder-as-a-general-way-to-distribute-softwares/32472/1 "2019-12-19T07:06:28Z")

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Often one may have a clean server without root. Building everything from source is okay but I recently found the treasure of binary builder artifacts at [https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers](https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers). I wrote an [install script](https://github.com/innerlee/setup/blob/master/jlinstall) for installing `git`, `ffmpeg` and `imagemagick` using the prebuilt binaries.

My question is, is this usage fair or as intended? If so, can I submit prs to binary builder so that more softwares are supported?

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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 7:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/can-we-exploit-binary-builder-as-a-general-way-to-distribute-softwares/32472/2 "2019-12-19T07:48:23Z")

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Absolutely!