On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 14:23, Garrett Rooney <roo...@electricjellyfish.net> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jochen Wiedmann > <jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Subversion client and server that doesn't use a DAV layer at all. The >>> Subversion community has never released binaries -- ever -- not do we plan >>> to. >> >> That would a completely new philosophy for an Apache project, which always >> aimed >> very heavily on distributions. It might either enforce to look at >> legal aspects in a >> different view - or lead to changing your philosophy. :-) Personally, >> I don't see any >> reason why things like creation of Windows binaries should be left to >> outsiders. (Apart >> from CollabNets business interests, which I wouldn't like to count.) > > Umm, how is it a "completely new philosophy for an Apache project"? > There are a number of Apache projects that ship source without > official binaries. APR and the Apache HTTPD server are two prime > examples. > > Don't assume that the way the projects you're familiar with are run is > the only way to run ASF projects.
Maybe it is the difference between shipping .jar files and (say) Windows executables? I can easily see a misunderstanding there ("why ship just .java files? why not a .jar?") Cheers, -g --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org