> On Jan 14, 2014, at 8:47 PM, Benoit Chesneau <bchesn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Paul Davis > <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >> >> >> I would also point out that even though our main repo would need to >> fetch other dependencies from the internet to build the final output, >> we fully intend that our release tarballs would *not* have this >> requirement. Ie, when we go to cut a release part of the process the >> RM would run would be to pull all of those dependencies before >> creating a tarball that would be wholly self contained. Given an >> apache-couchdb-x.y.z.tar.gz release file, there won't be a requirement >> to have access to the ASF git repos. > > > Just to be clear, the idea would be creating only a release tarrball from > all the git repositories or do you also think to create a full repository > from all the dependencies? Something done by Cloudi for example which build > the main repository [1] from the other repositories [2]. rcouch is only > creating a tarball containing all erlang deps [3] . >
I hadn't contemplated a "synthetic repository" until you mentioned it but my initial reaction is "ick". Not sure I see a point but it's also not something I see as overly detrimental. Regardless of that I'd expect the release tarball would be able to be generated from just the federated repositories. > Also what about the npm modules that are fetched for futon and > couchjs-node? Do you think we need to import them as well? At least maybe > should we provide a mirror? > > - benoit > I don't know enough about the state of these modules to have an opinion. I've talked to a few people about the fauxton build in general but I don't have a clear picture on what's a build time vs configure time dependency as well as how fauxton configure/build steps map to the corresponding configure/build steps. For instance, if as part of a release we build a completed fauxton and include that as a static thing then id not pull the npm dependencies directly and instead consider them external dependencies. But it's also completely possible I have no idea what I'm talking about and that makes no sense. > > [1] https://github.com/CloudI/CloudI > [2] https://github.com/Cloudi and > [3] https://github.com/refuge/rcouch/blob/master/Makefile#L120
