Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>
> In the pre-1.0 era, we distributed full neon and APR sources with
> Subversion. The reason being that most people had to build from
> source and we didn't want them to have to search for some or all of
> subversion's dependencies.
>
> In the current post 1.2 era, most of our users install one of the
> binary packages either provided from the svn homepage or by
> packagers. In most cases packagers will be bound to system provided
> versions of neon and APR. Remains only a very limited group building
> from source.
>
> I'd like to break with the pre-1.0 era for the distribution tarball
> and start shipping only the Subversion sources.
So what do we do about the Windows source distro? There are _no_ binary
packages of APR et al. for Windows, not to mention that the Windows
build requires APR sources.
Personally I don't give a damn, I never use the packages in the distro
when I build the binaries.
-- Brane
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Received on Wed Aug 31 21:14:29 2005