On Sunday, December 28, 2014, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28/12/2014 Peter Kelly wrote: > >> Another possibility is for me to host the files on a subdomain of >> uxproductivity.com <http://uxproductivity.com/>, in much the same way >> as binaries for the libraries are hosted by others in various >> locations. That way it’s not an official Apache thing but at least we >> can have a URL we can point people at which has exactly the files we >> want. >> > > There is Apache Extras (by Google) for that. But Google recently (still, > months ago) changed their policy and the Board is aware but a solution was > not actually found. SourceForge started a replacement at > http://sourceforge.net/directory/apache_extras but it is not official > yet. So we are in a transition phase. I would really recommend we use the sourceforge solution and reference it from our web. > > The OpenOffice "bootstrap" script does exactly what you need to do here > (download and extract tarballs to the right places). It's a Perl script > which is probably built, using bootstrap.1, as part of the configure > process... Well, if interested look at http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ > openoffice/trunk/main/ ; in bootstrap.1, line 42 contains the actual call > to the downloader script. thanks andrea. It would be useful if someone with perl experience could adapt the script. rgds jan i > > Regards, > Andrea. > -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
