Re: third party tooling.

2015-08-06 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: ...you can call yourself open source software all you want, but unless you get an exception from Fedora Packaging Committee you are not open enough for the distribution to consider your work... But that's doesn't make

Re: third party tooling.

2015-08-06 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: ...you can call yourself open source software all you want, but unless you get an exception from Fedora Packaging Committee you

Re: third party tooling.

2015-08-06 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: ...you can call yourself open source software all you want, but

Re: third party tooling.

2015-08-06 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacre...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Roman Shaposhnik ro...@shaposhnik.org wrote: ...you can call yourself open source software all you want, but unless you get an exception from Fedora Packaging Committee you are

RE: third party tooling.

2015-08-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I want to come back to the question about the dependency of a source release on third-party tooling to be built. There is some sort of principle involved when it comes to how others can build the source easily, even if only to confirm that it builds and operates. I would not want to see

RE: third party tooling.

2015-08-05 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Visual Studio projects. It might also be desirable to use Visual Studio Community Edition 2015, which is now released and available. -Original Message- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 12:04 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: third party tooling

Re: third party tooling.

2015-08-05 Thread jan i
to make sure I have not overlooked a policy or rule. rgds jan i. -Original Message- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 12:04 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: third party tooling. Hi. We have recently (again) on different list discussed third

Re: third party tooling.

2015-08-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 1:50 PM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On 5 August 2015 at 22:46, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: I don't have an answer about tooling with respect to the need for widely-available tools. If the concern is for ability to use free tools on Windows, but

Re: third party tooling.

2015-08-05 Thread Marvin Humphrey
jan i wrote: I want to make sure I have not overlooked a policy or rule. Corinthia is not required to be compatible with any particular platform. Consider why this is desirable: one might provide open source code which only works with a proprietary compiler, and then someone else might take

Re: third party tooling.

2015-08-05 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: Roman Shaposhnik wrote in reply to jan i: I'm not aware of any policy like that. That said, I'd say the rule in my book is very close to Linux packaging guidelines. Open source software *must* be bootsrappable from