Comment by jefftk

> We need to ship binaries. How do you do that? Do you maintain a few separate versions for a few popular distributions? Do you target the Linux Standard Base?

When I worked on mod_pagespeed we went with the first approach, building an RPM and a DEB. As long as we built on the oldest still-supported CentOS and Ubuntu LTS, 32-bit and 64-bit, we found that our packages worked reliably on all RPM- and DEB-based distros. Building four packages was annoying, but we automated it.

(We also distributed source, so it may be that it didn't work for some people and they instead built from source. But people would usually ask questions on https://groups.google.com/g/mod-pagespeed-discuss before resorting to that I don't think I saw this issue.)