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Subject: Re: External libraries on windows
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:22:37 +0700
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> On 28 Dec 2014, at 8:17 pm, jan i <jani@apache.org> wrote:
>=20
> On 28 December 2014 at 14:11, Peter Kelly <pmkelly@apache.org> wrote:
>=20
>> For OS X and Linux, external libraries used by Corinthia are fairly =
easily
>> installed through package manages (e.g. apt-get on Ubuntu, homebrew =
on OS
>> X). For windows however, someone who wants to build the project must =
first
>> go through a manual process of downloading various zip files, =
extracting
>> them into the right locations etc.
>>=20
>> To make it easier, I suggest that we host a copy of the libraries
>> necessary to build on Windows on the Corinthia website. I can put =
together
>> the directory structure and provide these as a zip file that someone =
can
>> just download and extract to the right location. I think this would =
make
>> development on windows a lot easier to begin for newcomers.
>>=20
>> Any objections to this?
>>=20
> I agree to the purpose, but we need to be very careful here, because =
Apache
> cannot be seen as distributing these libraries, due to licensing.

Yeah I thought that might be an issue.

> I assume, that if we on the page write the original URLs, and that the =
zip
> is only provided for convinience, it is ok.
>=20
> Can you please make a text files with the exact URLs when you make the =
zip
> (I assume you make the zip so it its directly in external).

What I=E2=80=99m thinking of is providing both of the following:

1. A shell script (bash) which downloads and extracts the zip files, and =
moves everything into its proper location. If possible I=E2=80=99d like =
to do this with a windows batch file, but that might not be viable given =
the lack things like unzip and wget on most windows installations.

2. Instructions on how to manually do what the script does, for those =
who do not have access to a Unix system or find it otherwise =
inconvenient to use the shell script.

Another possibility is for me to host the files on a subdomain of =
uxproductivity.com <http://uxproductivity.com/>, in much the same way as =
binaries for the libraries are hosted by others in various locations. =
That way it=E2=80=99s not an official Apache thing but at least we can =
have a URL we can point people at which has exactly the files we want.

=E2=80=94
Dr Peter M. Kelly
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