[IPOL discuss] public clone repositories of the IPOL codes?

[Nicolas Limare]

Hi,

> Some online repository force to label all the subdirectory under the same
> licence. (code google, sourceforge ...) (not github)

In Google there is the option "other free soft license", so it seems
OK. Some major software projects have mixed licenses, so I think it is
possible, as long as we only use free soft licenses.

> GitHub allow creation of an organization (IPOL for example), and add a list
> of users under this organization. It create a link to existing
> github account to the organization.

Yes, we can do it with IPOL, so that IPOL authors are free to register
as "members".

> => A lot of online repository propose the fact to have additionnal download
> (it could be useful to release pre-compiled version of the update).
> For native version it could be better to link to the original archive that
> exist on ipol.im.

Yes it could be useful, but I think this can't be automated; the
choice to produce pre-compiled data or not, for which platforms, how
to call it, how to package it, ... will be different for every
article. This is somehow similar to the issue of binary Linux package
distribution suggested by Daniel.

For the moment, I'm only willing to do some no-brainer automatic work:
1- take the tgz, 2- add to the global repository, 3- tag, 4- push to
every mirror. I think distributing pre-compiled data (which is good)
is probably a work to be done by every author, if they want to.

-- 
Nicolas LIMARE - CMLA - ENS Cachan         http://limare.perso.math.cnrs.fr/
IPOL - image processing on line                          http://www.ipol.im/
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