I am happy to provide clear-text versions of KEYS and CHANGES.txt if that is what you require. I've just never seen any other Apache project that did that.
As for whether there should be separate source and binary distributions, bear in mind that a binary-only distribution of ManifoldCF makes little sense. ManifoldCF is unusual in that it distributes a number of connectors which require third-party libraries in order to compile. We do not distribute those libraries for licensing reasons. Conditional compilation is used to build those connectors for which you supply the right bits. The binary part thus includes only the framework, and those connectors which depend only on open-source code. This is relatively limited but makes it faster and easier for someone to start things up right out of the box. So, effectively, you are asking us to not have a binary distribution in order to save on space. Is this a firm request, or is this just unhappiness at the download time? FWIW, I personally don't think such a build will save a great deal tar/zip space, but I can certainly check and get back to you. Karl On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) <chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > Hi Karl, > > On Jan 6, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Karl Wright wrote: > >> Answering on Grant's behalf, the ManifoldCF artifact contains both >> source and binary, and the KEYS and CHANGES.txt files are within the >> artifact, as seems to be standard Apache practice. > > Well I won't say it's standard Apache practice in my experience. I've made > probably over a dozen releases in about 3+ different Apache projects so far > (Nutch, Tika, SIS) and I've always put out a plain-text version of > CHANGES.txt and KEYS alongside the release artifacts. The advantage of doing > so is that I don't have to download a 140 MB file before I can check what > changes are part of the release. > > Also one of the things that Clutch checks in the Incubator is that there is a > KEYS file in the distribution area, separate of the release artifacts. So, I > would say it should be there. > >> You just need to >> untar/unzip it. > > Thanks for the pointer. I'd like to see the source and binary tarballs > separated. Strictly speaking, you really only need a source release, but it's > up to you guys I think if you want to provide a binary one too. The advantage > is that the source release is likely much smaller I'm guessing than the > binary. > > Cheers, > Chris > > >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) >> <chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: >>> Hi Grant, >>> >>> Is this a source or binary release? How are you guys making the release? >>> Using Ant or Maven? >>> >>> Can you guys provide a KEYS and CHANGES.txt file as part of the release >>> artifacts? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Chris >>> >>> On Jan 6, 2011, at 5:12 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> The Apache ManifoldCF community has voted to release our first set of >>>> artifacts and now would like an Incubator vote. 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