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#2083 Gallery Remote should get source release package
It seems there is no source package for gallery remote for download on sourceforge. The only way to get the sources seem to be SVN.
This is very inconvenient for linux distributions that compile the packages on installation, such as Gentoo.
Could you please provide a gallery remote source package?
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111025#c9
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I'm a Gentoo user myself, so I'm especially keen to cooperate.
Would you want only offical releases available as source packages, or also betas? I'd have to look at the possibility of automating uploading the source package to sf.net into my Ant nightly script, or providing another easier download location. Would end-users hit my server directly, or would there be an intermediate cache (in other words, can I host the source package on my DSL)?
Also, you've probably noted that I haven't done an official release for GR in a while. Since I'm getting less and less time do maintain it, I tend to stick to minor changes that don't really justify a full release.
Also... I'm moving away of GR as an installed application, and recent betas have focused on getting it to run as a WebStart app.
So, what do you think?
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I think for starters, a src package per official release is enough. Betas would also be nice, but nightlies are overkill - I wouldn't do this. Besides, if someone needs current sources, svn is good enough.
Providing it via sf.net downloads would be the easiest for other people to find, and the gentoo ebuild scripts have direct support for downloading sf.net files. While gentoo has several mirrors, I doubt if it's good to host it at your likely-to-be-disconnected-sometime dsl connection.
Moving away from an installed app to webstart has two sides. It'd make it easy to use and upgrade it if webstart is available (I had to tweak my system quit a bit before it worked, but that's gentoo). The downside is that it doesn't integrate as nicely into the start menu and cannot be started from cmdline as normal apps.
What I first expected when downloading the .jar was that I'd get a fully functional app running from that jar - not a setup, because that would be named (as I think) "GalleryRemote-setup-1.5.jar". I would still like to be able to have a fully working "offline" app instead of requiring webstart.
Any update on this bug?