I don't think the download is intended to be a replacement for a checkout but more a simple download for a complete newbie to do an initial evaluation, if they like what they see then they can figure out svn.
Regards Scott On 22/10/2007, Jonathon -- Improov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having both will be good. > > The SVN workspace download is for those who want to easily upgrade/update > in future. This is > needed even by newbies who may need to conveniently pull in critical > updates, esp if they're > playing with trunk. > > The non-SVN download (generated by svn export) is for those who do not > intend to do any > incremental updates in future. That means they'll have to re-download a > whole bunch for future > versions. > > Jonathon > > Jacques Le Roux wrote: > > Why not both ? They have different goals. We may recommend good open > source free tools. On Windows I would recommend 7-zip ! > > > > Jacques > > > > De : "Jacopo Cappellato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >> Hi Jonathon, > >> > >> Jonathon -- Improov wrote: > >>> Jacques is right. > >>> > >>> The best way was already suggested by the creator of this thread. And > >>> that is to publish a tarball of a SVN workspace. Downloaders will need > >>> to install SVN, of course. > >>> > >> I'm not sure if the 'tarball' of a complete svn workspace (i.e. "svn > >> checkout" instead of "svn export") is good idea, at least as the > primary > >> download file: > >> > >> 1) the file is bigger > >> 2) in the past, I had some problems in extracting big files (i.e. an > >> Opentaps tarball) containing svn folders: the process was really very > >> slow (the number of files to extract is huge when you include svn > >> folders); this was probably caused by a bad unzip software (or bad > >> hardware) but we should consider this > >> > >> Jacopo > >> > >>> And when we have time or bandwidth, we can also publish a non-SVN > >>> version (generated with svn export). > >>> > >>> I think it's nice (as a new OFBiz user) to be guided or prompted to > use > >>> SVN. Version control concepts are curiously sorely lacking even among > >>> many IT professionals. > >>> > >>> Jonathon > >>> > >>> Adam Heath wrote: > >>>> Jacques Le Roux wrote: > >>>>> Not everybody use Debian > >>>> This is true; We have use for rpms, as a few of our clients host > their > >>>> own hardware/software, and they use rpm-based systems. However, we > have > >>>> no experience creating rpm packages, so haven't done this. > >>>> > >>>> The debian packaging itself could be used as a basis for other > packaging > >>>> systems. I've already committed all the patches I had to do to make > it > >>>> work in debian. > >>>> > >>>> > >> > > > > > >
