Re: [Conclusion] Subversion 1.3 distribution tar slimmer?

On Sep 1, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:

> I would personally prefer having two tarballs: one with just the
> core and one with the core and all of the dependencies.

Well I don't get a vote :-), but if there must be a change I agree
with Justin, since the current situation (bundling required
dependencies) suits me just fine.

Coming from the POV of it is isn't broken, don't fix it: What
specific problem are we trying to solve by slimming down the source
package?

Erik originally wrote:

     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

Are we trying to solve a philosophical problem, or an actual problem
people are running into?

If there really are only a very limited group building from source,
then why not just leave things they way they are? Does anyone have a
legitimate complain about the package size? (Either those downloading
it or hosting it.)

Jim

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Received on Thu Sep 1 19:02:13 2005