[csw-maintainers] f-spot, anyone?

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi William,

Am 20.11.2009 um 16:54 schrieb William Bonnet:
> Dagobert Michelsen a écrit :
>> Hi William,
>>
>> Am 20.11.2009 um 16:46 schrieb William Bonnet:
>>>>> I suggest that i commit to GAR and put package in testing only  
>>>>> when the author will have answered me... I would be surprised if  
>>>>> redistribution was not authorized, but i prefer to wait for. Any  
>>>>> thoughts ?
>>>>
>>>> Yes. Please commit the Makefile anyway. Even if the license  
>>>> prohibits
>>>> binary distribution we may distribute the source package in the  
>>>> future.
>>> Actually i have no source, only a jar to redistribute.
>>
>> Hugh? "I suggest that i commit to GAR", why not commit that?
>>
>
> Yes no problem :)
>
> What i meant is that actually i cannot produce a source package  
> unless i "source" the jar file.  I see no real problem to distribute  
> a way to make people create the package by themselves.
>
> I'll do it when i'll be home.

The idea is to provide a manual download location and let the user
fill $GARCHIVEDIR. You can see
   https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/browser/csw/mgar/pkg/jdk6/trunk/Makefile
for an example of how it could be done.


Best regards

   -- Dago