[Opencd-devel] Re: Source

[Matt T. <rad...@ho...>]

I would agree that the third option of including the solves many issues and 
only introduces a few new ones.

Specifically,

>>
2. People looking for the latest and greatest won't come to us, we won't
have it (and we should advertise that fact).
<<

this will hold true as the OpenCDs release cycle will only include the most 
current stable version of any application.  Our need for sources would be 
frozen at (roughly) three month intervals, which could mean we were using a 
two-month (or week, or day) old stable version that experienced users would 
already have.

I agree with not being seen as a free-loading project to the greater OSS 
community.  These hard work and development that these people have done is 
the reason this project is a realistic possibility at this point.  Their 
support for the OpenCD project would give it more credibility and 
visibility.

Being a somewhat typical win user, I know I wouldn't need the sources nor 
would anyone I would be likely to give it to know what a source was.  And 
having skinny pipes at home (like most "rural" users) means trying to 
download a 500MB image is not really feasible.

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