On 28 December 2014 at 14:11, Peter Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
> For OS X and Linux, external libraries used by Corinthia are fairly easily > installed through package manages (e.g. apt-get on Ubuntu, homebrew on OS > X). For windows however, someone who wants to build the project must first > go through a manual process of downloading various zip files, extracting > them into the right locations etc. > > To make it easier, I suggest that we host a copy of the libraries > necessary to build on Windows on the Corinthia website. I can put together > the directory structure and provide these as a zip file that someone can > just download and extract to the right location. I think this would make > development on windows a lot easier to begin for newcomers. > > Any objections to this? > I agree to the purpose, but we need to be very careful here, because Apache cannot be seen as distributing these libraries, due to licensing. I assume, that if we on the page write the original URLs, and that the zip is only provided for convinience, it is ok. Can you please make a text files with the exact URLs when you make the zip (I assume you make the zip so it its directly in external). I can make the web page with dorte, unless someone else wants to do it. rgds jan i. > — > Dr Peter M. Kelly > [email protected] > > PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> > (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966) > >
