[MonoDevelop] Tarball and binary files

[Alan]

On 16 July 2014 08:54, Timotheus Pokorra <timotheus.pokorra at solidcharity.com
> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> this is about the nuget package binaries that are being downloaded
> during make, in master [1].
> The difference is, that this happens now during make, while in
> MonoDevelop 5.0.1 the dlls where already committed to git: [2]
>
> I provided a pull request [3], which downloads the asp.net dlls from
> nuget during make dist, and would include the binaries in the tarball.
>
> Now Lluis and myself are wondering, if it is unusual to include binary
> files in the tarball.
>
> The options are:
> a) include binaries in the tarball (current behaviour)
> There are currently already many binaries included in the tarball:
> I downloaded the latest official tarball from [4], and did:
>  tar xjf monodevelop-5.0.1-0.tar.bz2
>  cd monodevelop-5.0.1
>  find . -name *.dll | wc -l
> which tells that there are 128 dlls already part of the tarball.
> There are also 44 *.exe files.
>

This is wrong. It sounds like the tarball is including a fully built tree.
Also, 44 exe files? We probably only have 44 assemblies in the entire tree,
where are 44 exe's coming from?

Alan

>
> b) let make download external binaries during the build of the package
> I wonder if tarballs should be complete, and not require further
> download from the internet, so that builds are reproducible.
> On the openSUSE Build Service, you don't have a connection to the
> outside world during the build of the package, so that the builds are
> reproducible.
>
> c) include all sources in the tarball
> I guess this could be done with git submodules etc, like it is done
> already in [5], eg Newtonsoft.Json
>
> The question is: do people think we should provide the full sources
> for everything in the tarball?
> Or should we continue to allow binary files in the tarball?
>
> All the best,
>   Timotheus
>
> [1]:
> https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/blob/master/main/src/addins/AspNet/MonoDevelop.AspNet.csproj#L494
> [2]:
> https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/tree/monodevelop-5.0.1-branch/main/src/addins/AspNet/MonoDevelop.AspNet.Mvc/lib
> [3]: https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/pull/615
> [4]:
> http://download.mono-project.com/sources/monodevelop/monodevelop-5.0.1-0.tar.bz2
> [5]:
> https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/tree/monodevelop-5.0.1-branch/main/external
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