Re: why not use a repo?

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On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:49:01 pm Carl Karsten wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 December 2009 05:24:00 pm Carl Karsten wrote:
> >> > Please get your copy from our Download
> >> >  http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/
> >>
> >> That does not give you away to download the beta.
> >>
> >> If you don't pay attention, you get
> >>
> >> mysql-workbench-oss-5.1.18a-1ubu904-amd64
> >>
> >> "Error: A later version is already installed"
> >>
> >> Will someone explain again why this isn't in a repo?  downloading
> >> binaries from an FTP mirror is so 1900's.  Not being able to download
> >> is so home grown.  can we blame Oracle?
> >
> > I am working to get mysql-workbench into fedora.  so you can just do a
> > "yum install mysql-workbench" its currently waiting on a review for
> > inclusion.
>=20
> I am guessing the review includes looking at the license to make sure
> it is distributable?  If so, let me know how that goes.  If it is
> allowable, I'll put it in my PPA and submit it to Ubuntu for the
> Universe repo.
>=20
thats part of it.  one thing that will make it harder is the bundling of ot=
her=20
projects in the source tree. its a bad practice that utimately leads to=20
unintended consequences.  Can someone explain to me why the tarball has cop=
ies=20
of cppconn  ctemplate  curl  libsigc++  python  scintilla  silvercity  yassl


Dennis

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