Hi Karl, I'm trying to catch up all the points raised in the general@ thread in order to better understand them and what we actually need (not) to do. Will come back on this as soon as I can with more comments.
Tommaso 2012/3/28 Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> > Dear Developers, > > In case you haven't been following our fortunes in the > gene...@incubator.apache.org list, it has become clear that ManifoldCF > has resurrected an old battle having to do with rules pertaining to > the legality of including binaries in a source release. It is > therefore my opinion that the 0.5-incubating release will not occur > until we substantially rework our build process, especially where it > pertains to dependencies. A short way of stating the problem is that > binary dependencies can no longer be included in the source zip/tar.gz > that gets voted on. A request has also been made for us to remove all > previous releases that violate this principle, which is all of them. > I am waiting to see how the discussion pans out before acting on this > request. > > Our build and release process was modeled, unfortunately, on other > Apache Java projects, and these too have come under fire from the > Board because the same practice has been followed, in some cases for > more than a decade. I'm not sure what ManifoldCF did to become the > focal point of this discussion, but there it is - and my personal > opinion is that there is no chance of us releasing 0.5 without making > significant changes. > > I've captured what I think needs to be done in CONNECTORS-437, and > have been working through an ordered process of first setting up an > svn-based repository for those binaries which have been patched or > otherwise contain fixes not present in official released code, with a > long-term goal in mind of eventually having all dependencies come from > the Maven repository. This is in svn under > "https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lcf/bin-dist";. I will > also be extending the "ant download-dependencies" target to pull in > ALL binaries, not just those which come with incompatible licenses. > The ticket is probably incomplete; I'll be adding more stuff as I find > it. > > Thanks, > Karl >
