Source tarballs

[Xiomara Jayasena]

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!
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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.

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 :-)
>
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