Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-05 Thread Karl Wright
gt;>>-Original Message- >>>From: Karl Wright [mailto:daddy...@gmail.com] >>>Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 1:24 PM >>>To: general@incubator.apache.org >>>Subject: Re: Question about downloading binaries >>> >>>"Also, making sure the

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-03 Thread Karl Wright
ght [mailto:daddy...@gmail.com] >>Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 1:24 PM >>To: general@incubator.apache.org >>Subject: Re: Question about downloading binaries >> >>"Also, making sure the other comments on NOTICEs are addressed as well." >> >>I have

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-03 Thread Karl Wright
the same root. Is that correct? Karl On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Franklin, Matthew B. wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: Karl Wright [mailto:daddy...@gmail.com] >>Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 1:24 PM >>To: general@incubator.apache.org >>Subject:

RE: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-03 Thread Franklin, Matthew B.
>-Original Message- >From: Karl Wright [mailto:daddy...@gmail.com] >Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 1:24 PM >To: general@incubator.apache.org >Subject: Re: Question about downloading binaries > >"Also, making sure the other comments on NOTICEs are addressed

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-03 Thread Karl Wright
"Also, making sure the other comments on NOTICEs are addressed as well." I have gotten extremely confusing advice in this area in the past, and the available documentation does not help. I believe I am adhering to Roy's principles, but before we spin another release candidate, I'd like it very mu

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-03 Thread Matt Hogstrom
> Hope that helps... The question is, will Roy (or anyone else) be > unwilling to vote for the first option? Having been one of the people that commented and started the thread, I feel like I was wearing loose clothing while operating machinery, per Roy's guidance on the source being the thing

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-03 Thread Leo Simons
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Karl Wright wrote: > It sounds like I wasn't clear enough. > > The proposal is for the following release artifacts: > > (1) A source-only tar > (2) A source+binary dependencies convenience tar > (3) A binary tar > > This is instead of: > > (1) A source-only tar > (2

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-03 Thread Karl Wright
It sounds like I wasn't clear enough. The proposal is for the following release artifacts: (1) A source-only tar (2) A source+binary dependencies convenience tar (3) A binary tar This is instead of: (1) A source-only tar (2) A binary dependencies convenience tar (3) A binary tar Hope that help

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-03 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Karl Wright wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:33 AM, ant elder wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Jukka Zitting >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Karl Wright wrote: Our mentor(s) are pushing strongly for a source release (whi

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-03 Thread Karl Wright
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:33 AM, ant elder wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Karl Wright wrote: >>> Our mentor(s) are pushing strongly for a source release (which >>> contains the upstream patches), plus a "lib" release, wh

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-03 Thread ant elder
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Karl Wright wrote: >> Our mentor(s) are pushing strongly for a source release (which >> contains the upstream patches), plus a "lib" release, which is to be >> overlaid on the source release to allow it

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-03 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Karl Wright wrote: > Our mentor(s) are pushing strongly for a source release (which > contains the upstream patches), plus a "lib" release, which is to be > overlaid on the source release to allow it to build. I wouldn't call it "strongly", rather as just one

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-03 Thread Karl Wright
"Looking into ManifoldCF a bit, I think what you need is * buildable source release that contains all the source for ManifoldCF * source release that contains all the custom patches for the dependencies that need patches" Our mentor(s) are pushing strongly for a source release (which contains the

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-03 Thread Leo Simons
(dropped infra@) On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > I'm exceedingly sorry here that the IPMC as a whole let you down by > not turning into these issues and dealing with them at the outset. Me too. > Personally, I have no objection to including mutant jars in a -deps > bi

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread sebb
On 3 April 2012 00:48, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > [dropped infrastructure@] > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:43 AM, sebb wrote: >> Can you be certain that the non-standard jars will not interfere with >> the standard jars? > > ManifoldCF is a standalone application, not a library you'd use as a >

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, [dropped infrastructure@] On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:43 AM, sebb wrote: > Can you be certain that the non-standard jars will not interfere with > the standard jars? ManifoldCF is a standalone application, not a library you'd use as a dependency of another application. Thus whatever code goes

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread sebb
On 3 April 2012 00:38, Karl Wright wrote: > "Whether it is necessary is another matter, and is not easy to answer > in general as "it depends"." > > I'm going to treat this as "unnecessary", because we were extremely > careful to maintain backwards compatibility when writing the changes. The API

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread Karl Wright
"Whether it is necessary is another matter, and is not easy to answer in general as "it depends"." I'm going to treat this as "unnecessary", because we were extremely careful to maintain backwards compatibility when writing the changes. Karl On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:59 PM, sebb wrote: > On 2 Ap

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread sebb
On 2 April 2012 22:45, Karl Wright wrote: > I think the bigger picture here is that resolving differences of this > kind requires time, and during the interim we need to be able to > release software anyway.  I have no wish to maintain a forked copy of > either xerces or httpclient indefinitely, b

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread Karl Wright
I think the bigger picture here is that resolving differences of this kind requires time, and during the interim we need to be able to release software anyway. I have no wish to maintain a forked copy of either xerces or httpclient indefinitely, but right at the moment we are not prepared or able

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread Karl Wright
"what's the use-case for non-well-formed XML?' This thread is probably not the best place to delve further in that direction." Simple use case: parsing malformed RSS feeds. I agree, though, we're getting into the weeds here; I'd love to have this discussion elsewhere, but the point does stand tha

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread Benson Margulies
Karl, I'm exceedingly sorry here that the IPMC as a whole let you down by not turning into these issues and dealing with them at the outset. There's been a lot of sensitivity expressed lately to Apache projects stepping on each other's toes. Personally, I have no objection to including mutant jar

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread sebb
overall build process. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hope this helps. >>>>>> Karl >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Daniel Shahaf >>>&g

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread Karl Wright
>>>> >>>>>> Hope this helps. >>>>>> Karl >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Daniel Shahaf >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> Forward to list >>&g

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread Karl Wright
ther infra@ or legal@ perspective. >>>>>> >>>>>> Karl Wright wrote on Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:21:17 -0400: >>>>>>> "'svn patch' exists in 1.7." >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Ok, so that i

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread Benson Margulies
patched jar by checking >>>>>> out the project tag from svn and using svn patch, not by downloading >>>>>> the source tarball.  Do you think it is ok to allow svn access as part >>>>>> of a project's build process? >>>>&g

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread Karl Wright
rl >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Daniel Shahaf >>>>> wrote: >>>>> > 'svn patch' exists in 1.7.  (and tortoise includes svn.exe as an >>>>> > optional component, I hear)

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread sebb
.  (and tortoise includes svn.exe as an >>>> > optional component, I hear) >>>> > >>>> > Karl Wright wrote on Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:05:47 -0400: >>>> >> The patches are contained in SVN, yes, but the build process is >>>>

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread Karl Wright
optional component, I hear) >>>> > >>>> > Karl Wright wrote on Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:05:47 -0400: >>>> >> The patches are contained in SVN, yes, but the build process is >>>> >> structured to work on Windows as well as Linux, and there isn

Re: Question about downloading binaries

2012-04-02 Thread Benson Margulies
; >> structured to work on Windows as well as Linux, and there isn't a >>> >> standard patch utility on Windows. >>> >> >>> >> We could insist that people only build on Linux, I suppose, but that >>> >> would be a huge inconvenience for a lot of pe