On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:12:42AM -0500, toby cabot wrote: > Jeremy, > > I agree with the first few bullets. > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 07:40:13AM -0800, Jeremy Boynes wrote: > > * verification that the src bundle actually builds and results in the > > same binary as we are distibuting > > Is a src bundle is useful to anyone at this stage of the game? For > "real" releases, sure, but for now it might make more sense to release > binaries only and point people at the source code control system if > they want to build. The problem with people building from the source > bundle is that if they try to do anything interesting (like make > changes to the code) then they're in trouble since they won't have a > mechanism to stay in sync or submit patches that apply cleanly. I > think that we've got good enough instructions on the wiki so building > from svn isn't much more complicated than building from a tarball.
It'd be nice to have a pure source jar (no build files or anything else) that people could hookup to their IDE. Something like the src.jar in JAVA_HOME. -David
