On Dec 9, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Troy Simpson wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bert Huijben [mailto:bert_at_qqmail.nl]
>> Sent: Thursday, 10 December 2009 2:08 AM
>> To: 'Hyrum K. Wright'; 'Stefan Sperling'
>> Cc: 'Subversion Development'; 'Troy Simpson'
>> Subject: RE: Do we need to distribute packages/ ?
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Hyrum K. Wright [mailto:hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu]
>>> Sent: woensdag 9 december 2009 17:00
>>> To: Stefan Sperling
>>> Cc: Subversion Development; Troy Simpson
>>> Subject: Re: Do we need to distribute packages/ ?
>>>
>>
>>
>>>>> Any advice on this topic would be appreciated, especially since
>>>>> clearing up the licensing is an important step toward graduating
>> from
>>>>> the Incubator.
>>>>
>>>> Just another data point:
>>>> Virtually all Subversion packages in the non-Windows world are
>>>> maintained outside of our tree anyway, so nuking packages/ won't
>>>> do any harm for them.
>>>
>>> We do have the rpm packaging files in our tree. And I'm not talking
>> about
>>> removing that part of the tree, just not shipping it (like we don't
>> currently
>>> ship contrib/).
>>
>> +1 on not shipping packages/.
>>
>> (More recent Wix versions put some of these common files in a referable
>> location, so we might be able to remove them from our repository too)
>>
>> Bert
>
> I see no issue with not distributing as long as we can keep it in the tree
> in the repository. If any externals have been identified, please share what
> you have found so I can remove files. I am still waiting for my
> contributor's agreement to go through - last time I tried I didn't seem to
> be able to commit anymore. Please be aware before modifying the WiX package
> too much that I have made a number of changes that are currently on my local
> machine that need to be committed.
I don't plan on modifying it at all, just excluding it from the rat check, as well as the distribution tarballs. Once your CLA goes through (how long has it been?), you can still commit to the same locations as before; I won't have moved anything.
That being said, there doesn't appear to be any objection to the foregoing plan, so I'll wait until tomorrow for comments and then make it so.
-Hyrum
Received on 2009-12-09 21:20:27 CET