The ironic thing is that I would guess that more than half the developers use a distro of linux

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I guess I thought that most linux users could build their own since most linux installs include most of the required tools. Plus there is complications with all the different distros. I was taking a page from gentoo ( the distro I use ) and having people build their own versions.
Now, that being said we are developing a much improved updater system that will make it much easier to provide the final packages as well as the updater components for all 3 main operating systems.