Hi Jim :-)) > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: >> 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.
Jim Hall wrote: > These days, hard drives have lots of capacity. While including the > sources would add to the size, we're talking on the order of MB, not > GB. > > Including the source and binaries together certainly provides that > every program in the "FreeDOS 1.1" distro also includes the source > code. > > I am a big fan of this. Thanks :-) I think it will make packaging easier... On the other hand, I would suggest two things: A binary-only install mode in FDPKG / FDUPDATE / installer which simply skips the source/NAME dir while unzipping (or deletes it afterwards) and a binary-only ISO for people with slow internet, as generated by dropping the source directories inside the package zip files. In short: Let us COLLECT all packages as FULL packages (binary AND source) for most purposes and use AUTOMATED ways to "shrink full into binary" for people with small disk or small internet :-). > Can you put this in the FreeDOS Wiki, so people don't have to revisit > this topic again in a year after we've forgotten? :-) Sounds useful - if anybody needs a wiki login, let me know ;-) Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
