3 Apr 2012 06:44
Re: [Proposal] re-release 0.9 with proper source code package
David Crossley <crossley <at> apache.org>
2012-04-03 04:44:41 GMT
2012-04-03 04:44:41 GMT
David Crossley wrote: > All ASF projects need to release open-source software. > > At Forrest we have made major efforts to define the explicit > set of dependencies. We do not use Maven or Ivy to manage those > at build time. Instead we provided a distribution package which > contained all of those specific supporting product dependencies. > > That is okay as a convenience. > > However we need to provide a source code package which does not contain > those external JAR files, and conduct our release vote against that package. > Then we can construct other convenience packages for distribution. > > There is a relevant discussion happening now at general <at> Apache Incubator. > The messages from Roy are particularly useful. > Subject: Binary dependencies in source releases > http://s.apache.org/IvC > > We are aware of this situation, and need to act. > > I have removed our distribution packages from apache.org/dist/forrest/ > and hence from the mirror system, adding a README-distribution.txt file. > > I reckon that we can fix this by re-packaging our distribution as follows: > > [A] apache-forrest-0.9-source.tar.gz > [B] apache-forrest-0.9-dependencies.tar.gz > [C] apache-forrest-0.9-binary.tar.gz >(Continue reading)
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