Am Samstag, 2. Juni 2012 um 00:41 schrieb Pedro Giffuni: > > --- Ven 1/6/12, Rob Weir <[email protected]> ha scritto: > ... > > > > > > And computers need electricity, which is not free and > > > not available under a compatible license. I wish you > > > could keep focused or at least do an effort to > > > understand the issues so we can solve them. > > > > > > > > > Be nice. > > Couldn't resist :-P. But I really think you can > bring more intelligent arguments to the discussion > if you focus more on solvig the issues and less on > making your point. > > > > The tarball release must be consistent; we cannot hide > > > tarballs in SVN. Creating a directory with the > > > > > > > Category-A > > > tarballs that form a base of the release along with > > > > the > > > base distribution is not really a problem. Some of > > > > them > > > are not available upstream anymore. > > > > > > That is one possible technique. But not the only > > one. I'm a committer on another Apache project, > > the ODF Toolkit, and we do not include any of the > > dependencies in our release, not even other > > category-a ones. > > > > > Well I am a committer in the only big UNIX-like > distribution that is carrying Apache OpenOffice > nowadays. We would really like to use a source > distribution through ASF mirrors but since the ASF > doesn't provide one that works well we have been > rolling our own. Having a working source > distribution would help attract linux packagers, > I think. > >
well if that is really the case you have failed on several levels - you didn't really have used or tried the source tarball - you didn't gave the appropriate and necessary feedback - you didn't helped to fix your concerns relating the source release. At least it seems you have some concerns That makes me really thinking ... Juergen > > Perhaps you happen to have data about how many > people are finding the current source > distribution tarballs useful? > > > All of them are downloaded on the fly > > from a central repository. That is the > > beauty of Maven. > > > > > I have personal experience packaging stuff > and this is undesirable. One of my ports > was rejected recently because its inconvenient > to have the buildbot depend on network access. > > Pedro.
