"Ben Collins-Sussman" <sussman_at_red-bean.com> writes:
> Hold on, I think Mark and Peter are both correct.
>
> Mark is right in that we've made a policy change: we now distribute a
> deps tarball only for *convenience*, so that people who really want to
> bother to build subversion (and it's billion of dependencies) have a
> lower barrier to entry. Mark is right that 99.9% of all users will be
> using binary distributions anyway, and the 0.1% of people who build
> Subversion will probably be distro maintainers and understand the
> compatibility issues around svn's dependencies.
>
> However, Peter is also correct in that we've not changed our docs or
> behaviors to reflect this new policy. Our INSTALL doc still talks
> about the deps tarball as if it were some official thing that
> guarantees our ABI compatibility promise, and our release process
> still involves signing deps tarballs, as if they were sacred. We need
> to change these things to match the new reality, and do a better job
> of advertising the new policy.
>
> Rather than fighting about this, here's 3 simple action items:
>
> 1. Fix the INSTALL docs
> 2. Stop signing deps tarballs
> 3. Put clear docs surrounding the deps-download that make it clear
> that the deps are for *convenience* only... and perhaps include a link
> to some doc explaining the APR ABI issue.
*Smooooooch*.
(This must be why they pay Ben the big bucks.)
I've attempted step (1) in r30436, but welcome further tweaks of course.
Step (2) is something we all do, and I'll try step (3) later tonight if
no one beats me to it.
-Karl
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Received on 2008-04-08 19:00:54 CEST