On 08.05.2015 15:47, Nick Burch wrote: > On Fri, 8 May 2015, kiwiwings wrote: >> With my slow DSL, I've started to wonder anyway if we really need (to >> upload/provide) those src archives. If someone wants to get involved, they >> should fetch the trunk from the svn. > > We're an open source project, so the most important part of the release is > the source! > > While many users will just grab the binary package or the binary jars from > maven central, both from an ASF policy perspective, and from growing new > developers, we need to always provide a full buildable source. People wanting > to do a small bug fix for their release in production, or just to learn about > the code, will want and need that source release.
After reading your response, I've noticed that I broaden the context a bit. I only meant poi-src-3.12-20150511.tar.gz/.zip, not the maven source jars, which I also prefer when working with open source. But compared to github & Co. the viewvnc service is not configured to provide zip files, so I guess we keep it this way. I still wonder, if it's necessary to provide tgz and zip, but [1] suggests that unzip is still not a standard within *nix. Looking at the bin jars (poi-bin-3.12-20150511.tar.gz/.zip) should it also contain the ooxml-schemas-1.1.jar and ooxml-security-1.0.jar ... for the sake of completeness? Andi [1] http://superuser.com/questions/146754/on-linux-unix-does-tar-gz-versus-zip-matter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
