[lelanthran]

> surely you aren't calling binary releases of binutils 'projects'? why would you call this thing a 'project' in the sense you're using?

Because you called it a good thing using my definition of project:

>>> It improves the dev-ex of people contributing to these projects

If this is supposed to be a "Product of the compilation process only", then sure, but if so, what devex of the contributors exist?

If you want to shift to regarding this as analogous to the binary releases of binutils, then the devex of contributors doesn't matter, because the contributors to binutils aren't binary-patching files.