We have always supported CentOS, I simply had not noticed that you had added a section for it. Given that anyone that uses CentOS knows that it is a clone of Red Hat it seems redundant to even have that section and I would be in favor of removing it entirely.
The answer for SuSE is more complicated. Our Linux binaries are known to work on SuSE, Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian. All of our developers are using one of these distros. In the past, I chose not to spam the packages list and only include the platforms we officially qualify with every release and officially support. We added support for SuSE to CollabNet Subversion Edge and that is why I added it. So that part is true. I have a problem with "vanilla packages" and what that means. We are providing the same plain Apache and Subversion binaries we always have. The source code that goes into the binaries, and our build scripts to produce them, are all provided and available online. Why is it OK to provide these binaries with a Python script to help set them up. but not OK to provide them with a simple web UI that does the same? In either case the user can choose to download or not download, and once they have downloaded to use or not use. In other words, just as you could use our binaries without running the Python script to configure them, you can also use our binaries without running the web UI to configure them. I fail to see why there should be any distinction in terms of what users can download. The "vanilla packages" are still available. For command line client users, they are right there on the same page. For someone wanting the old package that includes Apache/ViewVC and Python script that is available on link from same page "looking for previous versions". But again, it is true that we have not claimed to officially support SuSE with these packages. Mark On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Hyrum K. Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > [ This is going to come off rather biased, given my affiliations, so > I'd appreciate some additional comments. ] > > From http://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion/redhat.html, I noticed > that CollabNet only offers downloads of CollabNet Subversion Edge for > Centos and Suse, but not vanilla Subversion packages for those > platforms. I'd prefer if our packages page linked only to packages of > Subversion, not packages of Subversion+other stuff. Maybe that means > we reevaluate VisualSVN on that page as well. > > Thoughts? Bikesheds? > > -Hyrum > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:21 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Author: markphip >> Date: Tue Oct 19 20:21:07 2010 >> New Revision: 1024394 >> >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1024394&view=rev >> Log: >> * publish/packages.html >> >> (centos, suse): Add CollabNet downloads. >> >> Modified: >> subversion/site/publish/packages.html >> >> Modified: subversion/site/publish/packages.html >> URL: >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/site/publish/packages.html?rev=1024394&r1=1024393&r2=1024394&view=diff >> ============================================================================== >> --- subversion/site/publish/packages.html (original) >> +++ subversion/site/publish/packages.html Tue Oct 19 20:21:07 2010 >> @@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ >> <div class="package" style="background-image: url('/images/centos.png');"> >> >> <ul> >> +<li><p><a href="http://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion/redhat.html";> >> + CollabNet</a> (professionally supported and certified by >> + <a href="http://www.collab.net/subversion"; >> + >CollabNet</a>)</p> >> +</li> >> <li><p><a >> href="http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/os/downloads?type=centos";> >> WANdisco</a> (professionally supported and certified by >> <a href="http://www.wandisco.com/"; >> @@ -316,6 +321,11 @@ $ make install clean</pre> >> <div class="package" style="background-image: url('/images/suse.png');"> >> >> <ul> >> +<li><p><a href="http://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion/redhat.html";> >> + CollabNet</a> (professionally supported and certified by >> + <a href="http://www.collab.net/subversion"; >> + >CollabNet</a>)</p> >> +</li> >> <li><p><a >> href="http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=subversion"; >> >OpenSUSE build service</a> (OpenSUSE and SLES, i586/x86_64)</p> >> </li> >> >> >> > -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
