On 31 December 2014 at 17:32, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote:
> -1 on using a prepackaged combination of the dependencies. > > It is only simpler locally, not globally. > > That is just moving the pea, and it means there is now an external > activity that committers must understand and someone has to maintain when > there are updates, security patches, etc., to the dependencies. It also > raises provenance issues. (I note that none of the sources have hashes or > signatures already, or else I missed them, and they include a variety of > .exe files.) > > If we are concerned about obsolescence or inaccessibility of the sources, > there might need to be a backup arrangement. That might be a better use of > Apache Extras. > May I say in a positive tone, I really hope to meet you in person at ACNA. You have a way of expressing the small undefinable worries in my stomach. A -1 with a good reason, calls for a discussion !!! so let me try to break this down into a couple of questions: (feel free to flame me, it I got it wrong). Assumption: we want windows developer to have an easy start with corinthia, and we dont want people to install things like cygwin. Questions: - Dennis already made a .bat to download the original source (which I clearly prefer), can we make the extraction as a .bat also (from what I understand it is doable, but need to be adjusted if we upgrade) ? - What is the back side of having to simple .bat scripts ? - Products like Cygwin, have scared AOO developers, so I dont want we depend on such products, do we agree on this ? (Windows developers in general only like visual studio, and maybe a couple of external libs) - Is this a temporary situation or will we always need external libraries ? - Peter made a suggestion, can we somehow learn from that, if we cannot make a .bat for extraction. rgds jan i > > - Dennis > > -- above in reply to -- > From: jan i [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 23:17 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Anybody who know how to write .cmd or .bat files for windows ? > > On Wednesday, December 31, 2014, Peter Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > > [ ... ] > > I propose a simpler solution ;) > > > > > > > http://downloads.uxproductivity.com/corinthia/corinthia-externals-20141231.zip > > > @dennis thanks fir all your investigation work. > +1 to having the prepared files at uxproductivity (and later apache extras) > and then use the script from dennis to fetch is. > > [ ... ] > >
