On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 4:26 AM Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote: > > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > I think a solution that adheres to POLA would be to check if Vagrant > > is installed and if not install version 2.3.7. > > I don't recognize the name POLA > but that solution sounds good to me.
Principle Of Least Astonishment = Do what most people would expect. > > > Is there a place that distributes Vagrant 2.3.7's tar ball > > > without requiring the user to run Javascript code? You could link to > that. > > > The binary is on: https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/2.3.7/ which > > I probably would use in the script above. > > > However, https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/2.3.7/ does not > > distribute the source code. > > That is not good. > > > I could put the source.tar on www.gnu.org/s/parallel > > Please do that. > > Is it NECESSARY to distribute the Vagrant binary? > Would it be ok for people to build from source?a The script mentioned above installs with 'apt'. It could simply fail if Vagrant is not available: "You must install Vagrant to continue" but I feel it will be better if it installs Vagrant - just like it installs other requirements for testing. If people want to build Vagrant from source, they should feel free to do so, but I am not going to maintain a script that does that. > How many different platforms require different Vagrant binaries? I only run Vagrant on x64. Vagrant is used to provide different platforms for testing platform specific tests. Basically, when something only fails on a specific platform, I add a test to that specific platform. > After that is dealt with, could you please inform the people who work > on directory.fsf.org about the change in the situation of Vagrant? I have no idea how to contact those and what to say to them. If I search https://directory.fsf.org/ I find no page for Vagrant. > We need to stop linking to the place that distributes nonfree versions > of Vagrant. I do not think https://directory.fsf.org/ links to Vagrant. /Ole
