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Hi,  This is a request for you in future to release source tarballs.

This is to enable to Gentoo Linux to package gettext-commons.  Gentoo Linux
is a source based distribution, so it is very important that the source is
available for our users to download.  Please contact me on ali_bush @
gentoo dot org if you have any questions.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by alistair...@gmail.com on 14 Dec 2008 at 7:16

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Hi Alistair,

does it have to be tar balls or do zip files work too? Also, are you talking 
about the gettext commons library or 
also the gettext ant tasks?

Thanks,
Felix

Original comment by berge...@gmail.com on 14 Dec 2008 at 7:01

• Changed state: Accepted

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zip files would be fine,  a few more notes that I should have added are,  
please be
consistent with file naming[1].

It would be great to get both, would you consider them to be separate packages? 
 I'm
happy to have them either separate or combined it is just a matter of what is 
the
best "fit".

[1] The reason consistent naming helps so much is that we package apps/libs by
creating an ebuild ( glorified bash script ) which has some variables 
predefined for
us by portage (The package manager).

Some examples are PN ( Package Name ), PV ( Package Version ) and P=${PN}-${PV}
this allows us to go
URL="http://someplace.org/downloads/${PN}/${P}.zip"

and as long as the paths remain consistent we will never have to update that 
again.

Original comment by alistair...@gmail.com on 14 Dec 2008 at 10:14

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Hi Alistar,

I tweaked our build system a bit. The result is shown below, would this be fine 
with
you? We're then releasing both src and bin dists with a stable naming scheme.

gettext-commons-0.9.2-bin.tar.bz2
gettext-commons-0.9.2-bin.tar.gz
gettext-commons-0.9.2-bin.zip
gettext-commons-0.9.2-src.tar.bz2
gettext-commons-0.9.2-src.tar.gz
gettext-commons-0.9.2-src.zip

Best,
  Tammo

Original comment by tvanles...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2008 at 9:22

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Great, thank you very much.  Will that source bundle include the ant tasks?  
Looking
a frostwire/limewire ( reason I found gettext-commons, lets hope they haven't 
patched
your code like they do to everything else under the sun.) I will be needing to
package both.

Original comment by alistair...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2008 at 10:45

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Ideally not, Tammo?

gettext-commons and gettext-ant-tasks are two different software packages and
currently also have different version numbers.

LimeWire does not use a patched version of gettext commons or gettext ant 
tasks, all
features needed by LimeWire were committed to the upstream sources.

Original comment by berge...@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2008 at 6:47

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Closing this as fixed, feel free to reopen, if functionality is missing.

Original comment by berge...@gmail.com on 27 Jan 2009 at 1:20

• Changed state: Fixed