Hi Andre; --- Mer 30/5/12, Andre Fischer <[email protected]> ha scritto: ...
> > > > The idea that we have remaining issues with Category-B > > tarballs in the tree has been around since before the > > release, and one of our mentors (Ross I recall) did > > acknowledge my point of view. > > > > I did offer to step down then but I don't mean to make > > a big issue out of this. If I step down it will be > > communicated in the private list exclusively. I would > > still be a committer and nothing would really change > > for me. > > > > What I feel is disappointing is the lack of > > acknowledgement that there *is* an issue. Category-B > > software can be included in releases in binary form > > but it should be otherwise actively discouraged, and > in > > general unsupported: it should not be included in the > > buildbots and using it should be, in general terms, a > > PITA. > > But the binary builds have to come from somewhere. > Unless we want to drop the features for which we > need category-B libraries then making it > harder to build them is IMHO not the right way to go. > I have an idea: if you look at the stax api module, there is an option to copy the binaries in a download dir. This works very well for java libraries (saxon, rhino, even beanshell). Seamonkey we can probably live without. The big problem is still Coin-MP: we really should have the option to use the external library in configure. > But maybe moving the offending libraries to another server > would be a first step? If you find a server and copy the files > over then I am willing to adapt the scripts accordingly. > I will do this next week. I will probably use Apache extras and at a later time we could leave there the old GPL'd stuff too (unsupported of course). Pedro.
