Releasing Bugzilla to CPAN

[Gabor Szabo]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Max Kanat-Alexander
<mkanat at bugzilla.org> wrote:
> On 03/30/2010 10:49 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote:

>> to some web applications.
>
>        I'd be interested to see which web applications are distributed on
> CPAN, and how they do it.

Let's look at Catalyst, while it is a framework and not an application.
IT installs to the system and then you run a separate script that will copy
(and generate) the necessary file in your application directory.

Kwiki

I am sure there are a few other wikis there and other applications.


>> I am not sure why bzr status would show Makefile.PL is missing
>
>        Because if you delete a file that's in the repo, it will show as missing.

This did not make sense to me until I read on where you explained that
you distribute the CVS directory (and will distribute the .bzr
directory) in the tarball
but...

>
>> but I hope those
>> who are using Bugzilla straight from the repository know what they do.
>> After all,
>> if I understand correctly, they can easily update themselves to some very buggy
>> development state of the code base.
>
>        No, actually, we recommend that even normal users upgrade using CVS,
> currently, which will be bzr for 3.7 and above. All the tarballs we send
> out retain the "CVS" directories currently, and will likely retain the
> ".bzr" directory (probably as a lightweight checkout) too.

... that sounds crazy.

I have not heard any application doing that, but of course that might
be just me.

I don't understand why do you recommend upgrade via CVS and why do you
distribute
the files that belong to the version control system.
I'd be glad to read the explanation though.


regards
   Gabor