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Richie wrote:<br>> Is anyone interested in owning up watching updates to third party<br>> softwares?<br><br>I'll continue to watch and post tickets, eventually merge in<br>snapshots, this is an interest area for me anyway. I only monitor adodb at<br>the moment, but given a centralized list of dependencies, I can scout<br>updates to other libraries as well.<br><br>> How to handle third-party updates?<br><br>Lets move Gopal's table of external dependencies into a plain text file in<br>the repository, treat it as a piece of documentation. Keep it simple and<br>consistent for interested parties to process with packaging or<br>update-watching scripts.<br><br>DEPENDENCIES.TXT:<br><br>adodb-4.90 <a href="http://prdownloads.sf.net/adodb/adodb490.tgz">http://prdownloads.sf.net/adodb/adodb490.tgz</a> adodb/<br>log4php-0.9 <a href="http://www.vxr.it/log4php/log4php-0.9.tar.gz">http://www.vxr.it/log4php/log4php-0.9.tar.gz</a> log4php/<br>Image_Graph-0.7.2 <a href="http://pear.php.net/get/Image_Graph-0.7.2.tgz">http://pear.php.net/get/Image_Graph-0.7.2.tgz</a> Image/<br><br>And so on. Make an external entry for every single thing that isn't<br>copyright vtiger or community.<br><br>> Earlier too, there was discussion of not bundling third party products<br>> with vtiger. How to proceed?<br><br>I can see the ease of use argument for keeping the necessary dependencies<br>snapshotted in the repository.<br><br>When we start getting picked up by various linux distro packaging, there<br>will be some demand for a version stripped without the snapshots that will<br>work identically, provided the distro package satisfies all the listed<br>dependencies.<br><br>Looking far ahead, my preference would be for vtigercrm-x.y.z.tar.gz to<br>eventually contain zero bundled dependencies. A separate companion<br>vtigercrm-dependencies-x.y.z.tar.gz could be provided, which the user<br>could untar somewhere on the PHP path to achieve a working vtigercrm<br>installation.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Free web-based spreadsheet application from Zoho. Create and share spreadsheets online using Zoho Sheet - <a href="http://zohosheet.com?vt">http://zohosheet.com?vt</a> <br>
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