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Christopher Tubbs commented on THRIFT-4119:
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[~Robert Lu], the bug is with the official releases, which are on the Apache
mirrors. What you're downloading from GitHub is a generated-on-the-fly snapshot
of the source repository at a point in time. That's not the official ASF
release.
The problem being reported here is a problem with the build/release process,
which does not properly include all the necessary source files to build from
source, in the official ASF release artifact. Some of those source files are
left behind in the git repository, but excluded from the official release,
which is not good enough. Users must be able to build from source using the
official releases. This is ASF policy, and why this issue is marked critical.
Providing only `configure` in the official release artifact is not good enough,
if something has to be patched downstream for integration (which it does, in
the case of the Fedora packaging, to tweak the compiler flags to conform to
Fedora's conventions for shared libraries, and probably others).
Additionally, generated code, such as the `configure` script, does not meet the
FSF definition of "Free Software" (except in conjunction with the source
repository, which is not "released" according to ASF), and does not meet the
OSI definition of "Open Source" (considered an "intermediate" form of source,
and not the real "source code"). While these definitions do not dictate ASF
policies, they are helpful in understanding why the full source should be
included in the official release... and not just the intermediate "configure"
script.
> bootstrap.sh is missing from the source tarball
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> Key: THRIFT-4119
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4119
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Build Process
> Affects Versions: 0.10.0
> Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
> Assignee: Jake Farrell
> Priority: Critical
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> The bootstrap.sh file is missing from the source tarball. This makes building
> from source difficult.
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