Back: Source tarballs

[Xiomara Jayasena]

Hi,

Due to popular demand, the source tarballs will be re-instituted.  
Source tarballs will be posted for the next build posted on java.net 
(build 25).

-Xiomara

Xiomara Jayasena wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 04/01/2008, *Xiomara Jayasena* <Xiomara.Jayasena at sun.com 
>> <mailto:Xiomara.Jayasena at sun.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>
>>>         Yes it is definitely being considered -- as it makes sense,
>>>         especially if it is difficult for people to pull down the 7
>>>         tar balls that currently exist now. There are a couple of
>>>         ways to go about this so that will need to be sorted out. 
>>>
>>>         Best regards,
>>>         -Xiomara
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Maybe I'm missing something here, but surely it just takes
>>>     someone at Sun to pull the b24 changeset using fclone, remove
>>>     the hg metadata, tarball it and upload it to the site?
>>>     This would be a lot simpler than pushing the Mercurial+forest
>>>     extension requirement on to every downstream consumer.
>>
>>     Thank you for your input!
>>
>>     What you  mentioned above is one way to do it.  Although I do not
>>     think Mercurial is needed to download the zips provided by
>>     Mercurial itself.
>>
>>     e.g.:
>>     http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/archive/jdk7-b24.zip
>>     http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/archive/jdk7-b24.zip
>>     http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/corba/archive/jdk7-b24.zip
>>     http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jaxp/archive/jdk7-b24.zip
>>     http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jaxws/archive/jdk7-b24.zip
>>     http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/hotspot/archive/jdk7-b24.zip
>>     http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/langtools/archive/jdk7-b24.zip
>>     <http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/langtools/archive/jdk7-b24.zip>
>>
>>
>>
>>     -Xiomara :-)
>>
>>
>>     -- 
>>>     Andrew :-)
>>>
>>>     Help end the Java Trap!
>>>     Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK
>>>     http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath
>>>     http://openjdk.java.net 
>>
>>
>> Yes, I'm aware of the zips which is probably a slightly cleaner way 
>> of doing the tarball than deleting the Mercurial metadata manually.
>> I actually find it quite astonishing that a tarball of a release was 
>> just dropped and we are even having to debate this.  It was probably 
>> tricker
>> to roll a tarball from the internal Sun repositories so why it's not 
>> being done just because the source repository is now available is 
>> strange.
>> I don't know of any other FOSS project that doesn't have bother 
>> available, at least for releases.
>
> There are a few options to get the source now ;-) unlike before.  Many 
> things have changed that have gotten us to the point of where we are 
> --  that said nothing is final and we are flexible :-)
>
> -Xiomara
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -- 
>> Andrew :-)
>>
>> Help end the Java Trap!
>> Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath
>> http://openjdk.java.net 
>

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