Include tools with MailScanner distro

[Julian Field]

Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Richard Siddall wrote:
>> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>>> Well, it would be good, but having a package, or, even better, a 
>>> repository, would be better.  The best would have tools distributed 
>>> with MailScanner, but this involves more (Julian doesn't want to 
>>> receive e-mails about a script that someone else wrote, extra work 
>>> for julian, etc).
>>>
>>
>> In one project I work on, parts of the wiki are generated from the 
>> source code.  Presumably you could go the other way around too. 
>> However, this is all extra work for somebody.
>
> It that is not too much work, the somebody could be me.
>
>> By "repository", are you talking about something like yum/apt, or 
>> CVS/SVN?
>
> If we generate a RPM, it may be easy to put it in a yum/apt 
> repository.    We could use CVS/SVN for source code, but I'm less 
> familiar with that.
I think a simple tarball would be more convenient for most people. An 
RPM is all very well for RedHat folks, but then you've got to distribute 
one RPM for RedHat, another for SuSE, an apt for Debian, a tarball for 
non-Linux, it all gets to be a complete nightmare and no-one will ever 
keep it up to date.

Keep it simple. Just a directory of files would do just fine, so long as 
there is a manifest in each dir that tells you what file does what and 
where to put it. And a Readme that tells you how to use it.

SVN is all very well for maintaining the code, but it won't be anyone's 
live development repository so there's not much point; again, it just 
makes it harder for people to contribute. You have to make it very easy 
for the authors as well as the users.

My tuppence worth...

Jules

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