Closed edsu closed 2 years ago
You don’t need to do this if you run from the .tar.gz distribution. This is only necessary if run from a git clone. Can you make this clear?
I assumed this would be the response. Good luck!
I assumed this would be the response. Good luck!
Why did you close the request? It's reasonable. People who are used to open source development with autoconf understand the situation, but others don't. I just don't want to tell everybody to run the program. So I would like to make the instructions more clear. Do you think that's a bad idea?
I closed it because I have no intention of making the changes you suggested.
But somebody else might.
Do you have no intention because you think that it's a bad request, and you disagree that it is needed?
I don't think it's a bad request. It's just beyond my abilities to act on without spending more time on it, which I don't really have unfortunately. I thought a small incremental change would be helpful.
I did start with bulk_extractor-2.0.0.tar.gz
which also did not seem to include a configure
. If instructions for working with the Git repo are added it would be good to indicate that a git clone --recurse-submodules
is needed. Otherwise bootstrap.sh will fail. Perhaps it is by design but the bulk_extractor-2.0.0.tar.gz
seems to lack dfxml_schema
and src/be20_api
. This also causes bootstrap.sh to fail.
Huh. That's odd. From where did you download bulk_extractor-2.0.0.tar.gz? The files available at https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor/releases/tag/v2.0.0 are GitHub "releases" which are just not useful for projects that include submodules, for the reasons that you note. But I could add the file bulk_extractor-2.0.0.tar.gz
there if you think it would be useful.
I also think that it's getting time to delete all of the old releases. What do you think?
I downloaded the release from GitHub, which is how projects tend to use GitHub in my experience. Having the old release versions is useful. For example today I used it because I was comparing output between two versions. I'm just a dabbler in bulk_extractor land, so I don't think my opinions count for much.
Do you think that it's useful having these old releases at digitalcorpora?
https://downloads.digitalcorpora.org/downloads/bulk_extractor/
I think it would be useful to mention in the README.md that you need to run
bootstrap.sh
to generate the configure command. I don't believe it's mentioned in the INSTALL, but people will probably see the README on GitHub first anyway.