On 17.11.2011 21:30, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
I had thought that category X artifacts needed to accomplish a build would be
excluded from the release but identified as prerequisites for the build. They
would never be distributed in the Apache OpenOffice release. (I am becoming
rapidly accustomed to using that name.)
Some become downloaded by build procedures in order to be used, but they are
never in the release itself. (Whether an ASF-hosted buildbot does such a thing
is interesting but tangential, I think.)
There are some odd cases of abandonware having no authoritative location for
downloading and also having OpenOffice.org-applied patches. I think dmake is
one of those. I have no idea how that ends up but I think it means dmake
disappears as a build prerequisite.
I am currently working on removing the dmake sources. There is another
thread about this, but you can also have look at issue 118604 for the
techincal details. The basic idea is to use a pre-installed dmake
executable by default. However, the user can provide a URL for a
downloadable tar-ball, which then is downloaded and built in bootstrap.
-Andre
Another case would be redistributables (e.g., a particular JRE version or
Microsoft Visual C++ redistributables) that may end up in a binary
distribution. This is a different situation, even though there can also be
build-time prerequisites (e.g., on a JDK or Visual C++) as well as dependencies
in the built binary distribution.
TJ, do you see any other flavors, or have any other specific cases in mind.
-----Original Message-----
From: TJ Frazier [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 11:44
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Draft IP Review Plan for OpenOffice
On 11/17/2011 14:16, Rob Weir wrote:
[ ... ]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/IP+Plan+for+Apache+OpenOffice
Regards,
-Rob
Good job, and much needed.
Comments:
(a) For item #4 under "Guidance for Source Releases", I suggest:
s/This/Producing a copy-left-free binary/
(b) Some further explanation of the situation regarding class-X-licensed
build components would be helpful. In order to build, AFAIK, we need all
sorts of things, like dmake, epm, gcc,&c. These have to be present or
downloaded, true?
