On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:45:57 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, well even though I am responding to the first message in this > chain I did read through all the other responses and, generally > speaking, there was a lot of good information there. > > I really don't want to put the sources on the release ISO, for > many reasons which I will iterate. > > * Any sources will become instantly obsolete the day they are > released. I don't really agree with this characterization. Consider the sources for a RELEASE branch. 98% of them won't change during the entire lifecycle of the branch. I wouldn't call that "instantly obsolete". > * Anyone who can download the release can also download the > sources. > This is certainly not entirely true for people who get the > release on a mailed CD, but it is again a matter of the vast > majority of people having access to the internet. A nightly tarball of the sources would help make this "more true". As has been pointed out, not everyone has/wants to use CVS/CVSup. > * I want DragonFly to be small enough to fit on other people's > multi-session CD's (I don't want our official dist to itself > be multi-session). This would not prevent you from creating > your own multi-session CD, however, since DragonFly has no > problems recognizing such CDs. I'm not sure what you consider "no problems," but last time I looked, mounting a given session from a multi-session CD was utterly brutal, requiring you to manually input the start+end tracks of the session (or something similarly painstaking.) This may have changed since then. -Chris
