Hi, i totally agree with Mateusz and Michael
also, once there is a source directory i think we can modify softwares to select 'binary only, source only or both' See YA! Geraldo Sapere Aude Non ducor, duco São Paulo, Brasil, -3gmt site: http://exdev.sf.net/ msn: geraldo_boca_at_hotmail.com skype: geraldo-netto icq: 145-061-456 2009/4/4 Michael Reichenbach <michael_reichenb...@freenet.de>: > It looks like you want it more reliable... Sounds very reasonable. > > Actually more pros (more easy for you, faster) then cons (file size). > > As you have the most work with it, > do it. > > -mr > > Mateusz Viste schrieb: >> Hi people! >> >> So far, we have always used packaging sources and binaries differently (that >> is, in separate packages, like memx.zip and mems.zip). I am trying to put >> some effort these days into syncing some packages to make them ready for >> v1.1, and I have to tell that handling sources and binaries in different >> ways is a big pain. >> Besides that, the "source" package doesn't contain its own LSM file, which >> makes its hard (or at least unreliable) to keep track of what source is >> installed in what version. >> >> Therefore, I am proposing to drop the "sources / binaries" way of thinking, >> and stay with one package per program. For example, a "mem.zip" package >> would contain both sources and binaries. It would allow me to work much >> faster on packaging, and hopefully could lead to a v1.1 sooner. >> >> Some reasons to do that (quotes from Eric): >> - it is easy to delete /source/mem/* to keep only binaries, >> - it is not really allowed with GNU GPL License to publish binaries without >> sources anyway, >> - it can be hard for people to find exactly the right version of the sources >> manually later, so it is best to include them, >> - it makes life easier for installing and you can always drop the sources >> after installing. >> >> Please tell me what are your opinions in that matter. >> >> Best regards, >> Mateusz Viste >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
