Re: Buildable source packages

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Mon Aug 16 2010 - 18:12:44 UTC

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    I am not against us providing it (if somebody cares to write it), but
    I don't think this is required either under my understanding or the
    quoted page (see my other message on why).

    Andrus

    On Aug 16, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
    > Moving this to a separate thread:
    >
    > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Andrus Adamchik
    > <andru..bjectstyle.org> wrote:
    >> It is practically impossible to do that as the
    >> build system is ... well, complex. I am sure most non-C Apache
    >> projects
    >> won't let you build from sources in the distro.
    >
    > I wasn't really going to respond to this since I didn't think there
    > was any ambiguity in the requirements. But since it's come up...
    >
    > All of the other Apache java projects I've used can build from the
    > distro source release.
    >
    > I don't see making cayenne build from the distro as an impossible
    > task. If the svn checkout can build, then it should be a simple
    > matter to copy that build tree into the distro.
    >
    > I will agree that's an ugly build system, but that's been the case
    > ever since we switched to maven.
    >



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