No such policy that I'm aware of. All you need do is distinguish between official release artifacts and convenience artifacts that you may not control.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 24, 2013, at 3:52 PM, "Roger Meier" <ro...@bufferoverflow.ch> wrote: > > Andrew , > this is great! > > I really like that simplification of install on the Windows platform. > > Adding such external download is not compatible with the Apache Policies as > far as I know. > That's why we removed links to latest builds from the download page :-( > > Would be great to have your patches used to make NuGet within the Apache > Thrift code base. > "generate a .MSI that installs the thrift compiler and runtime libraries" is > a wish since 2010... > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-874 > > Let's use apt-get like SUPER COW POWER on windows by using NuGet and > chocolatey packaging. > > all the best! > roger > ;-r > > > > >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: Ben Craig [mailto:bencr...@apache.org] >> Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. September 2013 20:40 >> An: u...@thrift.apache.org >> Betreff: Re: Easy installer for Thrift in Windows >> >> I'm glad to see the thrift compiler get added to chocolatey. I've been > talking >> with some of the Boost maintainers about getting official NuGet support > for >> the Boost libraries. Once that happens, I intend on getting NuGet support >> added for the Thrift libraries. >> >> Note that I'm not making any promises as to which release that will go in. >> It's just something I've been researching. >> >> >> >> From: Andrew Pennebaker <apenneba...@42six.com> >> To: Thrift Users <u...@thrift.apache.org>, >> Date: 09/24/2013 12:43 PM >> Subject: Easy installer for Thrift in Windows >> >> >> >> A Chocolatey-style installer for Thrift has been published for Windows >> users: >> >> http://chocolatey.org/packages?q=thrift >> >> Could we include a link to this at the top of the Windows Thrift install > tutorial? >> >> http://thrift.apache.org/docs/install/windows/ >> >> Now it's much easier for Windows users to setup Thrift! > >