Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> 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?
It is not always easy to find the right versions of packages to go
along with Subversion and everything else on your system... It also
means extra config steps to tell Subversion where to find all of the
dependent libraries - /usr/local is not generally in the standard
include or library paths, and that is the default prefix for all of
the dependent libraries that Subversion uses...
I know, cry me a river...
FWIW, I don't care anymore - I now have to jump through those hoops
for OpenSSL, which is *so* braindead on systems without /dev/random
or /dev/urandom. One of these days I'll provide a patch for ra_serf
to support GNU TLS and we can be done with it...
--
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Internet Printing and Document Software http://www.easysw.com
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Received on Fri Apr 7 22:37:28 2006