* David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-31 13:20]: > A. Pagaltzis wrote: > > >Disagree. The tarball should contain the full source necessary > >to recreate everything the author did. Stuff that’s not > >relevant to end-user installation of the module should simply > >be kept out of the way. > > I ever-so-respectfully disagree. I am not going to include the > original data that I downloaded from the UK telecoms regulator > for a particular build of Number::Phone::UK::Data (although I > do include a shell script that downloads the current version of > that data), nor the list of exchanges for > Number::Phone::UK::DetailedLocations. > > Bear in mind that these two modules are already 2.5MB and 7.5MB > *compressed*, 18 and 36MB uncompressed.
I said “the tarball should contain everything necessary to recreate everything the author did”, to which you respond “I include a shell script for downloading the un-munged data I used to build the module.” Can you explain to me where the disagreement is? :-) (Yes, I know there’s technically a difference. But what I *meant* is that someone else should be able to losslessly take over or fork the module, and what you’re doing is perfectly in line with that.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
