Subversion did this prior to joining the ASF (so, up to 1.6.x inclusive). IIRC we stopped releasing -deps tarballs partially because libneon is LGPL.
Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez wrote on Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 21:11:51 +0200: > Hi Joe, > > thanks for the insight :-) > > can you give one project which has done this?, just to have a look at it > and have this done the right way from the beggining. Are there any special > requirements for these jars in order to be able to distribute them from > mirrors (i.e.: being signed with a key corresponding to the Apache web of > trust or something like that?) > > > br, > juan pablo > > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > > Many projects in a similar situation ship a "deps" > > package that contains dependencies and distribute > > those from the mirrors. > > > > HTH > > > > > > > > > > > > >________________________________ > > > From: Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez <juanpa...@apache.org> > > >To: general@incubator.apache.org > > >Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 2:42 PM > > >Subject: downloading external dependencies outside of svn.apache.org > > > > > >Hello, > > > > > >As a part of JSPWiki's July 2012 incubator report [#1], it was noted that > > >JSPWiki (incubating) should not ship external jars alongside with code. > > >This has been achieved in current trunk. However, as part of AOO community > > >graduation vote thread [#2] it was noted that: > > > > > >" If you try to build from source the build system will download packages > > >from svn.apache.org instead of from elsewhere or the mirrors. That > > >violates infra policy." > > > > > >Which is exactly what is happening to us: we download jars from Central as > > >much as possible but, as there are a few of them ([#3], [#4]) which are > > not > > >published in Central, we download them from svn.apache.org. These jar are > > >all AL compatible so, the questions are: > > > > > >- where can we place them in order to not violate infra policy? > > >- could this be a -1 towards voting a release? how to proceed? > > > > > > > > >thx & regards, > > >juan pablo > > > > > >[#1] http://s.apache.org/zsq > > >[#2] http://s.apache.org/8Gk > > >[#3] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/jspwiki/libs/lib/ > > >[#4] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/jspwiki/libs/tests/lib/ > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
