Justin Erenkrantz writes:
> 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?
>
OK, downloading both packages, making sure the source code is the same
and test building both should be enough.
> > 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
Why not just put up a pre-release without dependencies included and
see how many complaints we get? I'd like to know if this "hard to
find the right dependencies" is a real problem or not.
Regards,
//Peter
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Received on Sat Apr 8 00:52:35 2006