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#8 Please do tarball releases (.tar.gz is best)

v1.0_(example)
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2015-11-10
2015-11-09
Anonymous
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Please do a tar.gz source release of this. It would make packaging on every Linux distrobution that doesn't use .deb files (lots of them) a lot easier.

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  • James Larus

    James Larus - 2015-11-09

    Sorry, I'm not going back to this form of release. You can check out the code or even download a tar file from the Code page of this project (https://sourceforge.net/p/spimsimulator/code/HEAD/tree/).

    And, don't get me started on releasing software for Linux. Out of the three platforms, it is by far the worst. It is amazing and frustrating to see this community recreating the mistakes that doomed Unix in the 1980's. How many release format does one operating system really need?

     
  • James Larus

    James Larus - 2015-11-09
    • status: open --> wont-fix
     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2015-11-09

    I can't find a tarball at that page, otherwise I would not have opened this ticket. I found a zip archive, but that's not useful to GNU/Linux on the whole where tar is already installed, and zip is not.

    As an aside, what mistakes are you referring to?

     
  • James Larus

    James Larus - 2015-11-09

    It produce a .zip file. You can easily open the file on Linux:

    unzip spimsimulator-code-xxx.zip

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2015-11-10

    I can't find a way to package that for a Linux distrobution that is not based on aptitude. If I take the snapshots, then after an amount of time, the IP is no longer found. Can you please consider releasing even a zip file in the regular files, containing the code at that point in time?

     
  • James Larus

    James Larus - 2015-11-10

    No. I'm not going back to tar balls. If you want to repackage spim in that format, be my guest. Just set up the SVM repository on your machine, sync whenever you want, and run tar. You'll get exactly the same output as I would have.

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2015-11-10

    Even if you don't make them in tar, even releases in zip format would be grand. Most package managers for Linux or BSD require a zip or tarball to be downloadable, and can't do a checkout. In addition, for security, they do a checksum of the downloaded file. Even when sourceforge has a zip file available, they re-make it with different timestamps, so the checksum fails.

    Please, just add a .zip file to the list of files you can download, right along with .deb.

     
  • James Larus

    James Larus - 2015-11-10

    NO. If you want to download spim in another format, do it YOURSELF. That is the beauty of a source code control system. You can download onto YOUR machine EXACTLY what I have on MY machine and produce EXACTLY the same tarball that I would have.

    Sorry for the capitals, but you are either not reading my previous messages or do not understand how distributed software development works. I do NOT have to do everything for you. You can do it yourself.

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2015-11-10

    The consensus among my computer science friends is you don't understand how distributed software development works.

    I wasn't asking for another format. I was asking for a constant zip file due to the issues I mentioned before.

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2015-11-10

    I point you to the fact that aside from Arch Linux, BSD and Linux in general use a spim 8.0 archive downloaded from http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/SPIM/ as such a release method is necessary for dissemination of code to non - developers via a package manager.

     
  • James Larus

    James Larus - 2015-11-10

    Don't care. If they want to keep sending around copies of spim on 8" floppys via the Post Office, that also fine with me, and permitted by the spim license.

    In fact, that is the point of open source software. If you want to do something with spim (except for the few anti-social acts prohibited by the license), go for it. You don't need my help or cooperation to do so. That is the point of open source software.

    Best of luck.

     

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