Include tools with MailScanner distro

[Brendan Pirie]

Julian Field wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> 
Despite the fact that I use RHEL/CentOS, I'm inclined to agree.  This 
should be made available in a non distro centric way.  Although, if one 
wanted to include spec files in the tarballs that would facilitate the 
use of rpmbuild, I wouldn't be inclined to object. ;)

Brendan