Re: [TSVN] Re: external libs in our sourcetree

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:28:45 +0000, Russell Hind <rh_gmane@mac.com> wrote:
> SteveKing wrote:
> >
> > Haven't even thought of WiX yet ;)
> > Another problem is the whole tools folder, which right now we keep as
> > a zipped 10MB file in our download area.
> > If only Subversion would do checkouts without fetching the externals,
> > but fetch them only on explicit request - that would make it much
> > easier for people with 56k modems.
> >
>
> It might make it a bit of a pain for them, but couldn't they checkout
> the individual folders they want using the repo-browser? e.g. src, doc
> etc, that way if they only want to browse the source, they don't fetch
> all the svn source and external source?

That might work, yes.
I tried to sum up all the libs we need, which ones are available via
svn:externals (i.e. which are hosted in Subversion repositories) and
of course which binaries we need:

Tools-Folder, containing fop, docbook templates, gettext tools. This
folder is needed to generate the docs and the language packs. 23MB
WiX for the installer: 4MB

Libraries:
apr
apr-utils
apr-iconv
Subversion
neon
openssl
zlib

the last two libs aren't available through Subversion repositories.
And their sources alone are 15MB(!). Neon is only available via http
(yet), not https which makes it impossible for me here at work to
check the source out.

The real question here is: how far should we go? I mean, should we
include the tools and wix too? Then what about perl and python? Or
should we just include all the source which are available via https
and have the others download by the users themselves?

Stefan

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