On 26 Nov 2010, at 11:34, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:30, Peter Lemenkov <lemen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Much better scenario would be to disallow generally bad practice of >> bundling sources from different projects, but this would be painful >> because even many popular Linux distributions (not to mention of Mac >> OS X and Windoze) lacks of good Erlang support right of the box. > > The solution for that is a build system script to pull tarballs of the > web, not keeping full copies (in some cases not associated with any > upstream URL or revision -- for oauth) in the VCS, IMO.
This breaks the basic requirement of not requiring networks access for an installation which I remember Noah is advocating. I think we can agree on that packaging and distribution is a tricky business and that there are not general right or wrong ways of doing it, just different priorities for certain trade-offs. Cheers Jan -- > I can > understand that it made sense to bundle things while Couch was still > getting started, but it should be moving to using released upstream > versions. On Gentoo (where I maintain the ebuild) we definitely also > frown on bundled packages. > > Cheers, > > Dirkjan
