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Post source code release including 'configure' script. #353

Closed bgrundy closed 2 years ago

bgrundy commented 2 years ago

PR #352 appears to indicate that there's a source distribution of BE somewhere with a configure script. I cannot find a live link to it anywhere. The link on the Code/About page (http://downloads.digitalcorpora.org/downloads/bulk_extractor) does not appear to have 2.0.0, and the link on the Wiki/Downloads page of this project results in a 404 error ( and still points to https://github.com/fedorie/gitflow/releases/download/0.4/bulk_extractor64_1.1.2.zip).

Can you provide a link to the source tarball with a configure script? I'd like to create a distribution package without requiring a bootstrap. Most of the Github projects I do this with include configure scripts in the Code/Releases tarballs, which does not seem to be the case here. Many thanks.

simsong commented 2 years ago

Sure. I'll be posting a release this weekend. Sorry for the confusion.

simsong commented 2 years ago

I have updated https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor/releases/tag/v2.0.0 so that it now includes bulk_extractor-2.0.0.tar.gz.

I concur with you that many people who use GitHub may not understand the need to clone a repo with the --recursive flag and may not understand how to use autotools to create the configure script.