On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Esteve Fernandez <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:12:05 Michael Greene wrote: > > I would also like this, although I'm not sure it's necessary for 0.1. > > As long as the tarball is correct for 0.1, I would think we could > > still package it for the various distributions after-the-fact. > > We don't need to merge it for 0.1, as you said, we could simply generate > packages for Thrift after we roll 0.1 > > > I'm not sure if the differences between Esteve and Todd's work have > > been resolved, but there's also Eric Evans's recent work: > > http://git.debian.org/?p=users/eevans/thrift.git;a=summary > > > > Esteve, Todd, and Eric: can you comment on the state of your packaging > > and whether the differences between your packages can be merged or > > otherwise resolved? > > Which is the best packaging? Mine, of course! :-) > My work and Esteve's are pretty much merged at this point. I made a couple of changes last week after we ivy-ified the Java lib, which I'll post to the JIRA momentarily. > > Not really, but it's already being used by some people and it's been "in > the > wild" for a while. I feel a bit uneasy having two separate efforts, > especially given that upstream (i.e. us) has been working on it for a while > (THRIFT-71 was filed in July the 9th), THRIFT-71 already has support for > C++, > Java, Ruby, Perl, Python, C# and Erlang, and works with Ubuntu Hardy and > Debian Lenny. > My other difference is that I've disabled the C# builds in order to successfully build on Debian Etch, which was a requirement for my packages. -Todd
