Re: Donation system?
On Mon, December 17, 2007 7:39 pm, Petr Janda wrote: > idea to set up some kind of a shopping cart where we could lets say sell > DragonFly cds, and also people could donate money: i for one would be one > of them and i think we'd find a few more people that would donate a few > bucks. I'd like to do something like this; however, it (traditionally) requires the incorporation of a non-profit like what's happened with FreeBSD and NetBSD, with someone handling donation money. Otherwise, there isn't really a specific person to receive the money, or any tax benefit for the donating entity. I looked into it a bit; it's mostly paperwork for setting up a nonprofit. Someone would have to be willing to do the printing and shipping; there's companies out there that will do the work for you (e.g. Cafepress, Zazzle, etc, for clothing), but the additional costs from them will be over 100% of the cost of doing it yourself.
Donation system?
Hi, We all agree thats its pretty hard to earn money on free/open source projects, and that a lot of projects have a donation system. I think it would be a good idea to set up some kind of a shopping cart where we could lets say sell DragonFly cds, and also people could donate money: i for one would be one of them and i think we'd find a few more people that would donate a few bucks. What do you think?
Re: Binary Updates for DragonFly
Hi, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please see pkgsrc/misc/bsdiff which provides the "Size efficient binary > diff and patch tools". > > I didn't compare yet. But if this is different to pkgsrc, please consider > providing your improvements upstream. The version are the same. Instead of using my own tool pkg_search to perform a search I just copied it over from FreeBSD :) Regards, Matthias -- Dipl.-Inf. Matthias Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Distributed Systems Group University of Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Strasse, 35032 Marburg, Germany Tel: +49.6421.28 21 591, Fax: +49.6421.28 21 573, Office C4347
Re: Binary Updates for DragonFly
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Matthias Schmidt wrote: > To use the client and the server tool you have to install Colin Percivals > bsdiff/bspatch tools at first. I have a version ready for DragonFly here: > > # fetch > http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/update-dragonfly/bsdiff_n_bspatch.tar.gz > # tar xfz bsdiff_n_bspatch.tar.gz && cd bsdiff_n_bspatch > # make && make install Please see pkgsrc/misc/bsdiff which provides the "Size efficient binary diff and patch tools". I didn't compare yet. But if this is different to pkgsrc, please consider providing your improvements upstream. (I like the general idea. The original paper even quoted about my commercial implementation from a few years ago. My binary patches provided the installation script which could output details about it, backup changed files, and even revert changes. I'd rather use a normal packaging tools though.)
