Source distribution

[Eric Evans <ee...@debian.org>]

Greetings,

As I mentioned in another email, I plan to package thrift for inclusion in
Debian. One concern I have with this is that taken as-is, there would be
one source package and some 10+ binary packages, and I have very little to
no experience with some of the languages these extensions target.

Has splitting the source tree ever been considered? Or maybe carving it up
when it comes time to create release tarballs? Doing so would allow distro
package maintainers to pick up the source packages that correspond to their
interests and expertise.

-- 
Eric Evans
eevans@debian.org

Re: Source distribution

[David Reiss <dr...@facebook.com>]

I can't speak for others, but I have never considered it.  I would suggest
starting off by just building the library languages you are familiar with
and letting others contribute the changes for the rest.  You might start
with the work done here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-71

--David

Eric Evans wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> As I mentioned in another email, I plan to package thrift for inclusion in
> Debian. One concern I have with this is that taken as-is, there would be
> one source package and some 10+ binary packages, and I have very little to
> no experience with some of the languages these extensions target.
> 
> Has splitting the source tree ever been considered? Or maybe carving it up
> when it comes time to create release tarballs? Doing so would allow distro
> package maintainers to pick up the source packages that correspond to their
> interests and expertise.
>