Re: bitpim binary modules breaks Gentoo QA policies

Roger Binns wrote:

>> that would be the preferred way, but since you do not provide the source
>> tarball in your releases, it cannot be done.
>
>
> The tree is tagged - do a check out on the tag.  For example the most
> recent release was tagged BITPIM_0_8_08.  We haven't done the first
> release from the new Subversion repository yet but will do soon
> at which point there will be a tag namespace there.

not going to happen. I'm not willing to take this extra-work every time
I bump the version.

>
>> please add the  source tarball to your future releases.
>
>
> No.  The SourceForge file release process is far too annoying.
> As I mentioned in the previous mail, that is why I don't
> have builds for other versions of Linux distros.
>
> If you are prepared to go through the SourceForge upload process with
> each release I'll happily email you the tarball each time to do so.
>
c'mon, all the other open source projects release their source tarball
first! that is the way things work in this realm.
is it so hard to upload just one more file?

>> who says that every release should be immediately available in all
>> distros? 
>
>
> I do and the users do.  BitPim changes for the better noticeably
> with each release.  That is a major part of the reason why the
> releases are so frequent.  We update a lot of the phone model support
> as well as features/functionality common to all phones.
>
> Telling users there is a new version (ie removing ~x86) only
> to have them find out it is 3 months old and the current release
> works with their phone better doesn't help anyone.
>
> ie there is something in place now that works well now, and is
> always up to date.  Proposing to make that significantly worse
> isn't that interesting to me.
>
>> Does Debian or Redhat include the update whenever you release a new
>> versions?
>
>
> They don't supply BitPim.  The users grab it from the BitPim
> web site.
>
then you want us remove app-mobilephone/bitpim from our tree, leaving
Gentoo users install it from your rpm?

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