--- Ven 1/6/12, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> ha scritto: ... > > > > And computers need electricity, which is not free and > > not available under a compatible license. I wish you > > could keep focused or at least do an effort to > > understand the issues so we can solve them. > > > > Be nice. >
Couldn't resist :-P. But I really think you can bring more intelligent arguments to the discussion if you focus more on solvig the issues and less on making your point. > > The tarball release must be consistent; we cannot hide > > tarballs in SVN. Creating a directory with the > Category-A > > tarballs that form a base of the release along with > the > > base distribution is not really a problem. Some of > them > > are not available upstream anymore. > > > > That is one possible technique. But not the only > one. I'm a committer on another Apache project, > the ODF Toolkit, and we do not include any of the > dependencies in our release, not even other > category-a ones. Well I am a committer in the only big UNIX-like distribution that is carrying Apache OpenOffice nowadays. We would really like to use a source distribution through ASF mirrors but since the ASF doesn't provide one that works well we have been rolling our own. Having a working source distribution would help attract linux packagers, I think. Perhaps you happen to have data about how many people are finding the current source distribution tarballs useful? > All of them are downloaded on the fly > from a central repository. That is the > beauty of Maven. > I have personal experience packaging stuff and this is undesirable. One of my ports was rejected recently because its inconvenient to have the buildbot depend on network access. Pedro.
