On 11 July 2012 22:26, Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez <juanpablo.san...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh, my misunderstanding then. If that's the case, then there is one > technicality of the apache release process blocking the release > (distributing dependencies alongside source), although not a tough one. > I'll file a Jira and reflect it at the project incubation status page. > > > regards, > juan pablo > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez >> <juanpablo.san...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Regarding the binary dependencies. Wasn't the discussion on general@more >> > focused on (or raised because of) transitive dependencies which were >> > brought into the build and not being AL-compatible? >> >> No, all the dependencies discussed were compliant with Apache >> policies. The problem was about having binaries included in the source >> archive. >> >> > Also, the build is Ant based, so we need them to be there in order to be >> > able to build.
Not so; Apache JMeter and Tomcat both use Ant and have external dependencies which are not held in SVN. >> >> The proposed solution for this case was to put the dependencies in a >> separate -deps archive, that can be combined with the source release >> to make it buildable. The build script can also automatically download >> such separate binary dependencies. That's what JMeter and Tomcat do: there's a separate Ant task to do the downloads. But you could also use Ant+Ivy. >> >> BR, >> >> Jukka Zitting >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
