Hello, What's happening with this patch? Does OpenVPN want it?
On 04/01/2010 10:19:01 AM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > So, what is the status of this patch? Would Openvpn > release "unpackaged" MS Windows binaries? If so > you can apply the code patch and I'll rework the > documentation patch into where ever the documentation > currently exists. > > On 02/28/2010 09:48:46 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 02/28/2010 06:27:54 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > > > On 09/04/09 05:03, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > > > > The OpenVPN devs have a "built" source tree in which they run > > > > install-win32/buildinstaller. My point being that > > > > if they would package it up > > > > and release it alongside the resultant installer > > > > none of these sorts of issues would ever come up. > > > > > > > > Attached is a patch that produces a un-nsis-installer > > > > windows binary release as part of the build process. > > > > > > > > Apply it with: > > > > > > > > cd openvpn > > > > patch -p1 < buildbinaryrelease.patch > > > > > > > > The result is a file named something like: > > > > openvpn-2.1_rc15-winbinaries.tar.gz > > > > > > > > I deliberately produce a tar.gz file > > > > rather than a zip file to keep > > > > Windows people from downloading it accidentally > > > > instead of the Windows installer exe. > > > > > > > > There is more work to be done. The file needs to > > > > be signed and put on the website every time there's > > > > a release. I don't see anything in svn to patch > > > > that would aid this process. > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I'm going through the mailing list, picking up patches which > seems > > > > not > > > to be included. Is this patch still interesting to get included? > > > > I would like to see it included. > > > > The goal is to allow people to create > > custom installers for MS Windows without having to rebuild > > the source or cross compile. The point of the patch > > is to support an "unpackaged" release of the MS Windows > > binaries. In other words raw binaries that are not > > part of an installer, which can then be packaged > > using the nsis installer to produce a custom install. > > > > As noted above this means that the official OpenVPN project > > would have to actually release such binaries. If the > > project does not want to do this there is no point in > > having the patch. > > > > So, this requires upstream approval. In some ways this > > is no different from other patches, except that it requires > > ongoing work as new releases come out -- or if not that > > then a change to whatever automated process (unavailable to > > us, at least at the time the patch was written) that puts > > releases out to the public. > > > > > This > > > one applies cleanly to the master branch. > > > > > > I see that this patch is also followed by this one: > > > > > > <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/2581> > > > > Yes. The second patch is to the documentation so that people > > know what to do with unpackaged MS Windows binaries. Not > > much point in releasing the binaries unless there's documentation. > > > > > > > > This patch do not apply at all, as the standard checked out tree > do > > > not > > > have INSTALL-win32.html, only INSTALL-win32.txt. Is this > correct? > > > I > > > can't find this HTML file in the 2.1_rc15 nor 2.1_rc16, which was > > > current when this patch was sent to the mailing list. > > > > The OpenVPN site has restructured since this patch was written. > > > > I'd be happy to redo the documentation patch, but I don't see > > any point in doing so without some assurance that the effort > > will not be wasted. How can I get some feedback on this? > > > > Regards, > > > > Karl <k...@meme.com> > > Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." > > -- Robert A. Heinlein > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > > _______________________________________________ > > Openvpn-devel mailing list > > Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel > > > > > > > > > > > > > Karl <k...@meme.com> > Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." > -- Robert A. Heinlein > > > Karl <k...@meme.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein
