Re: [gpsd-dev] Planning a 3.11 snap release

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Mike!

On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:14:01 -0500
Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Monday 25 November 2013 21:57:31 Gary E. Miller wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 09:12:02 -0500 Greg Troxel wrote:
> > > I think fetching things at build time is basically broken.
> > 
> > A lot of packages fetch at build time
> 
> err, what now ?  no they don't.  it's an oddity to be discouraged.

Discouraged?  Not the place of gpsd to fly in the face of convention. 

Asterisk does this.  Docbook does this.  I'll start a list, but I
already know it is long.  License restrictions make this the only option
for a lot of packages.

> that said, the tarballs look like they do the sane thing -- they don't
> fetch but instead use a local cached copy. for the git tree, i tend
> to give a bit of leeway to devs to keep things sane when it comes to
> maintenance, so i don't see a problem keeping the code in there. -mike

Agreed, if true.

RGDS
GARY
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