deprecating kerbsrc.zip
Benjamin Kaduk
kaduk at MIT.EDU
Wed Sep 19 16:56:11 EDT 2012
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Hi all,
I have staged on github ('kfw' branch) an update to src/windows/README
which attempts to bring it up-to-date with the recent changes that have
gone in towards KfW 4.0.0.
As part of that staged update, I claim that the kerbsrc.zip method of
building kerberos on windows is no longer supported; this is, however, not
a claim that I wish to make unilaterally.
We had traffic on kerberos at mit.edu last month that seemed to indicate that
the zipfile had broken, with error messages such as "don't know how to
make 'clients\kswitch\Makefile.in'". I don't know of anyone using it for
development (though nor have I really asked) -- I have been using VMware
shared folders to copy a git checkout into my VM, and I believe other
developers are just using git clients natively on windows.
Does anyone think that we should attempt to retain the kerbsrc.zip target?
(Is it worth attempting to verify that it is indeed currently broken?)
Given the availability of git clients for Windows, and github's ability to
produce zip files on demand, getting the source on Windows is surely an
easy matter. The freely available Utilities and SDK for Subsystem for
Unix-based Applications from Microsoft can provide the sed/awk/cat/cp
which were potentially avoided by the kerbsrc.zip target (having never
actually used it, I am not 100% certain on its reason for existence).
Simply put, I don't know of a reason for kerbsrc.zip to stay around, and I
don't see a need to put effort into fixing and maintaining it.
Does anyone think we should continue to maintain and support kerbsrc.zip?
I plan to remove the Makefile glue for it in a separate commit if we
decide not to keep it.
-Ben
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