Adrian Maier wrote:
> On 12/11/06, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > George Birbilis schreef:
> > >> All this is possible, but IMHO it is nonsense to put effort
> > >> into creating such a snapshot.
> > >>
> > >> I think there is some intelligence test, test if people
> > >> persevere enough. If a person cannot find the link to getting
> > >> the sources from the home page and follow those instructions
> > >> to get a svn checkout, it is unreasonable to expect such a
> > >> person to provide sensible patches.
I don't think that's the problem. The problem is that OpenSource has to go
out of it's way to invite people to contribute, by making it as easy as
possible, even when this means introducing duplicate contribution paths.
> > > I can't say I agree, people with experience and skills don't have the
> > > time to spend reading all those instructions etc. So they must be very
> > > determined to fix or enhance something that bugs them in Lazarus or if
> > > they like very much to contribute something back to Lazarus. In both
> > > cases the time they lose in setting this up (if they don't get
> > > discouraged and give up in the first place) is lost from time they'd
> > > give in reading the sourcecode and possible fixes/enhanchements they'd
> > > do (and contribute).
> >
> > Maybe, maybe not.
Maybe exactly.
> But it doesn't seem to be extremely hard to build something like :
> - the Lazarus tree is put on a ftp server
> - inside the tree there is a file containing (for axemple) the list of
> files and their md5 checksums
> - when a user clicks "Update Lazarus" , the program downloads the list of
> files and compares it to what exists on the local machine. And then
> downloads the files that were added or modified.
>
> Probably this is just an idea for the future : for Lazarus 1.0 and
> beyond ?
Great idea, I just hope v1.0 isn't called Lazarus.
Thanks!
--
Al
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