Re: Dropping dependencies in tarballs (was: Re: Branching for 1.4)

On 4/7/06, Peter N. Lundblad <peter@famlundblad.se> wrote:
> The reason it was dropped was that it effectively double the burden on
> tarball verifying, because you had to test it with and without dependencies.

Why? If the source code is the same, why the need to verify with or
without dependencies?

> I'd rather like us to drop the shipping of dependencies. People will
> have to fetch some extra packages to build from source. What's the
> big problem with that?

I think the argument is that people who use packaged versions don't
care about dependencies (they probably don't even use our releases;
but from their OS vendor). Those people who download directly from us
want a smoother installation process. -- justin

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Received on Fri Apr 7 22:26:03 2006