Source tarballs

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 04/01/2008, Xiomara Jayasena <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
>
>
> -Xiomara :-)
>
>
> --
>
> Andrew :-)
>
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>
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.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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