FWIW, The external sources include a lot of stuff that is outdated and there may even be security risks involved.
I think I posted a list of outdated stuff before and on FreeBSD I made sure we carry natively the latest versions (with some care for compatibility). Also there's the issue that was discussed already of having an external ICU and dictionaries. I do think that for linux/BSD distributions adding a list of dependencies would just be better in the long run, but that would make life more difficult for Windows. cheers, Pedro. --- On Wed, 9/7/11, Eike Rathke <o...@erack.de> wrote: > Hi Mathias, > > On Wednesday, 2011-09-07 00:32:40 +0200, Mathias Bauer > wrote: > > > >> 6) The bootstrap was pulling down > dependencies from Hg. We need to > > >> get those into SVN or Apache-Extras, right? > > > > > > Yes. > > > > Really? The "dependencies" (I assume these are the > external tarballs) > > are not stored in a Mercurial repo. > > Correct, I just overread "hg" and concluded there needs to > be a place > for the external tarballs. > > > Nevertheless we have to find a place > > for them - or to get back to the old procedure that > stored them inside > > the repo. > > I wouldn't do that, being part of the repo we'd lose the > --with-external-tar=... capability and a checkout really > does not need > to include them. > > > At least those that have a suitable license. > > Of course. > > Eike > > -- > PGP/OpenPGP/GnuPG encrypted mail preferred in all private > communication. > Key ID: 0x293C05FD - 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 > 2F1A D073 293C 05FD >
