RELEASE on March, 1st !!!

[Denys Duchier]

"Christian Schulte" <schulte at imit.kth.se> writes:

> Just to clarify, I was quite amazed by the change made by Denys: we always
> (Ralf, Michael, me) built tarballs that way after painful experience, both
> DFKI Oz as well as the versions of Mozart prior to 1.2. Let's stick to
> tradition ;-)

Just to clarify even more: I made no changes :-)
Binary tarballs can still be produced as before, given sufficient
fortitude/manpower.

Really, Christian, you are being unfair.  Please, try to bear in mind
for a good long while, oz releases were, so to speak, basically a
one-man show.  I did as well as I could with limited resources.  My
focus was on providing good coverage for current platforms and I
eventually came to the realization that the only scalable and
sustainable model was a "community supported" release process.  That's
what I tried to work towards and encourage.  Creating self-contained
binary tarballs was not a priority and I received no feedback that it
should be otherwise.  Given limited resources, I did the next best
thing and packed a normal binary distribution as a tarball, together
with e.g. dependency information just to be on the safe side.

If the solution I presented (namely packing the dymically linked
libraries together with the distro) is not considered satisfactory,
then perhaps the "release guide" should also be extended to include
detailed instructions on how to create a solid statically linked
binary distro.

Cheers,

-- 
Dr. Denys Duchier
Équipe Calligramme
LORIA, Nancy, FRANCE