I like this approach. Alexey K., what do you think? D.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote: > Yup. > > An ASF release is essentially a source code: signed and tagged back to a > certain revision in the source code tree. Including binaries as a part of > the > release is frown upon as binaries can not be reviewed during the vote > process, > hence one can not guarantee the content of the release. That's esp. true > with > 3rd party, proprietary stuff. > > A nice and user-friendly way around it would be to provide a mechanism for > a > user to download the drivers without even leaving the UI application in > question. Do you think it might work in your case? > > Cos > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 01:59PM, Vladimir Ozerov wrote: > > I don't think that shipping drivers is a good idea for the following > > reasons (skipping already mentioned licensing problems): > > > > 1) Some drivers targeting specific databse version. > > 2) There could be different types of JDBC drivers available for the same > > database (e.g. JDBC3, JDBC4, alternate implementations, etc.). > > 3) Some drivers require installation (e.g. MS SQL requires some DLLs to > be > > placed in specific folder). > > 4) We would have to bother with updating drivers along with their new > > version releases. > > > > It shouldn't be a problem for a user to setup a JDBC driver manually as > > virtually any developer knows how to do that. > > > > Vladimir. > > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Alexey Kuznetsov < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi All! > > > > > > I'm working on small GUI utility Schema load (see IGNITE-32 issue > > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-32>). > > > > > > And for users usability it will be nice to provide JDBC drivers for > most > > > popular databases (Oracle, DB2, MS SQL, ...). > > > > > > But I'm afraid that providing proprietary software as part of Apache > > > download will violate Apache rules. > > > > > > We could provide the file with collection of download links, but manual > > > download is inconvenient for end-user. > > > > > > Please advice how we could handle this? > > > > > > -- > > > Alexey Kuznetsov > > > GridGain Systems > > > www.gridgain.com > > > >
