On 12/Nov/2010 00:19, Krystal Mok wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Tim Ellison <t.p.elli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 11/Nov/2010 02:21, Krystal Mok wrote: >>> Thank you very much. I didn't know enough about the layout of Apache >>> projects' archives. Now it's much clearer to me what's the correct way to >>> fixed outdated dependencies. >> >> It is worth mentioning though Kris that not of Harmony's dependencies >> are available from the apache.org site; indeed not all of the >> dependencies are Apache licensed so it is possible that other sites will >> take down some packages that we depended upon in the past. >> >> In general, we don't commit to keeping the old development milestone >> drivers working for any period of time. If you need to stay on a >> particular version I'd advise taking a local copy of the dependencies. >> > Thank you. Understood. I was kind of hoping to see a mechanism that people > can contribute patches that get sticked side-by-side with the download links > of the older milestone tarballs, or some kind of "Patches page" to so that > others would know: "there's a patch that would make milestone X build on > YYYY-MM-DD". I understand it's not likely to commit back into the code repo > to keep older milestones up-to-date.
If you want to create a wiki [1] page on this subject then I'm happy to put a link to it from the downloads page. [1] http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/ Regards, Tim
