I think it's pretty clearly non-source. It's a build helper that is unnecessary in release tarballs.
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@apache.org> wrote: > On 08/18/2010 12:56 PM, Bryan Duxbury wrote: > >> What do you guys think of omitting bootstrap.sh from release tarballs? >> > > The full source code of a project should be the primary release artifact. > Is bootstrap.sh not project source code? > > I wonder if Thrift might instead be better of releasing multiple tarballs. > You could release a source tarball that's just a dump of subversion, and > then also release other artifacts that are more directly useful to end > users, e.g., pre-built tarballs for some languages, or easy-to-build > tarballs for others. > > Doug >