if only there were as many people to do the work that suggest the work :)
Jacques Le Roux sent the following on 10/25/2007 5:46 PM: > 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 > > >
