More possibilities, more opportunities... Still have to do the thing, though
Jacques De : "Jonathon -- Improov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Wouldn't that be better served by the demo OFBiz? > > Jonathon > > Scott Gray wrote: > > I don't think the download is intended to be a replacement for a checkout > > but more a simple download for a complete newbie to do an initial > > evaluation, if they like what they see then they can figure out svn. > > > > Regards > > Scott > > > > On 22/10/2007, Jonathon -- Improov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Having both will be good. > >> > >> The SVN workspace download is for those who want to easily upgrade/update > >> in future. This is > >> needed even by newbies who may need to conveniently pull in critical > >> updates, esp if they're > >> playing with trunk. > >> > >> The non-SVN download (generated by svn export) is for those who do not > >> intend to do any > >> incremental updates in future. That means they'll have to re-download a > >> whole bunch for future > >> versions. > >> > >> Jonathon > >> > >> Jacques Le Roux wrote: > >>> Why not both ? They have different goals. We may recommend good open > >> source free tools. On Windows I would recommend 7-zip ! > >>> Jacques > >>> > >>> De : "Jacopo Cappellato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> > >>>> Hi Jonathon, > >>>> > >>>> Jonathon -- Improov wrote: > >>>>> Jacques is right. > >>>>> > >>>>> The best way was already suggested by the creator of this thread. And > >>>>> that is to publish a tarball of a SVN workspace. Downloaders will need > >>>>> to install SVN, of course. > >>>>> > >>>> I'm not sure if the 'tarball' of a complete svn workspace (i.e. "svn > >>>> checkout" instead of "svn export") is good idea, at least as the > >> primary > >>>> download file: > >>>> > >>>> 1) the file is bigger > >>>> 2) in the past, I had some problems in extracting big files (i.e. an > >>>> Opentaps tarball) containing svn folders: the process was really very > >>>> slow (the number of files to extract is huge when you include svn > >>>> folders); this was probably caused by a bad unzip software (or bad > >>>> hardware) but we should consider this > >>>> > >>>> Jacopo > >>>> > >>>>> And when we have time or bandwidth, we can also publish a non-SVN > >>>>> version (generated with svn export). > >>>>> > >>>>> I think it's nice (as a new OFBiz user) to be guided or prompted to > >> use > >>>>> SVN. Version control concepts are curiously sorely lacking even among > >>>>> many IT professionals. > >>>>> > >>>>> Jonathon > >>>>> > >>>>> Adam Heath wrote: > >>>>>> Jacques Le Roux wrote: > >>>>>>> Not everybody use Debian > >>>>>> This is true; We have use for rpms, as a few of our clients host > >> their > >>>>>> own hardware/software, and they use rpm-based systems. However, we > >> have > >>>>>> no experience creating rpm packages, so haven't done this. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> The debian packaging itself could be used as a basis for other > >> packaging > >>>>>> systems. I've already committed all the patches I had to do to make > >> it > >>>>>> work in debian. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>> > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.15.5/1084 - Release Date: 10/21/2007 > > 3:09 PM >
