David,
Currently I have...
Source: mirror:custom:pymol/pymol-0_99rc8-src.tgz
CustomMirror: <<
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What is the recommended form for the Source line when
the source tarball only exists within the fink mirror
system? Also, I think we should add a DescPackaging
line that clearly states we are creating a tarball for
the fink packaging in accordance with the BSD license
of pymol from the proper svn branch for that release.
Lastly, I wonder if we can't give Warren a little help
with his concerns by perhaps adding a postinstall
message that states we encourage fink users to support
the pymol project either through code donations or
purchased support. I think this would show good faith
on our part.
Jack
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 08:42:57AM -0800, David R. Morrison wrote:
> I've read through the Pymol license, which permits the source code to
> be redistributed.
>
> That means the correct way to handle this in fink is as follows: the
> fink package manager does the SVN checkout, strips out SVN stuff, and
> creates a tarball. We then host that tarball on the fink site (or
> the maintainer can host it), for download by fink users.
>
> Jack, if you have such a tarball which you would like fink to host,
> please let me know and I will arrange it.
>
> -- Dave
>
> P.S. The reason a direct SVN checkout can't easily be done in the
> fink context is the fact that we want to check the MD5-sum of
> whatever the user downloaded, and we can't easily do that unless the
> download is a single file.
>
>
> On Jan 19, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:
>
> > I noticed this week that a new pymol 0.99rc8
> >version was released but starting with that
> >version no source tarball would be made available
> >on pymol.sourceforge.net. Rather users will have
> >to manually access the source via svn in an effort
> >to limit the ease of packaging this open source
> >software.
> > I am conflicted on this since I understand
> >Warren's effort to limit the effect of the
> >open source pymol on his support license sales.
> >However it somewhat defies the definition of
> >open source to limit the access like this.
> >How do the other fink developers feel we should
> >proceed? I suppose we could adjust the fink
> >packaging to no longer use a source tarball
> >but to use svn to download the particular
> >release branch and purge the .svn files out
> >to create a proper source tree. Any suggestions?
> > Jack
> >
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