Hello, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> Over this weekend, I will take a look at them and try to incorporate. > > Maciek, do you agree? Yes. There is just one thing that we need to figure out before that, though. I was always under the impression that the ready to use packages are most effectively prepared by people who are associated with a particular package system or a particular Linux distribution and not necessarily by the original projects. The point is that there are many packaging systems and it requires lots of dedication to keep the packages well maintained. The approach where the development team focuses on the code and where the maintainers associated with particular distro take care of the packaging seems to be effective in the sense that it better reflects the competencies of those who do the work. The above approach is not universal, however, and there are projects that take care of packaging as well. Should we do the same? We are in a good situation now that Denis simply contributes his work - thank you Denis for this! Without this it would be pretty clear that we should not get involved in package preparation. I think that the best what we can do is to integrate this contribution in the CVS tree and provide RPM packages on our download page, together with the "raw" tar.gz/zip packages. Thanks to this, people will be able to choose the package that is most appropriate for them. It should be still clear that this work, similarly to autotools, relies on the availability of the maintainer to keep things going in the future - without this we will be force to drop that part in next releases, very likely leading again to the (unnecessary) grief among those who are used to it. The whole project is of course based on voluntary effort, but please remember also that adding something to the project means taking responsibility for it tomorrow. Mateusz, as our "package and build manager" ;-), please try to work together with Denis to get this going. If you manage to get the autotools working again, feel free to resurrect them as well. Interesting - is there a possibility to make SOCI an official package in any of the Linux distributions? Do you consider it to be good, instead of or in addition to providing independent releases from SourceForge? Again, thank you very much Denis for this contribution. Regards, -- Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Soci-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/soci-users
