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

Justin Erenkrantz writes:
> On 4/7/06, Eric Gillespie <epg@pretzelnet.org> wrote:
> > ra-serf seems to me like an excellent opportunity to stop
> > bundling our dependencies. -0 to adding apr-serf to the
> > subversion distfile, for 1.4 or any other release.
>
> For 1.4, I would really like us to implement the 'base' (no deps) and
> 'full' (incl. deps) release variants. We talked about doing this for
> 1.3, but it got dropped. -- justin
>

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.

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?

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Received on Fri Apr 7 22:17:54 2006