On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 18:16 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Jesse Keating writes: > > > These days distributing via tarball is bizarre. Distributed source > > control is changing the way that projects work and release. Sure there are > > plenty of projects out here that don't work this way but more and more are > > headed in this direction. > > Yes. If I get the desire to build a new library, or something, I always want > to just find the URL to the upstream's source control repo, then check out > whatever I find in there, and run with it. I'm confident that I will never > have any problems building it, and it won't have any issues. > > This is the best and the most reliable mechanism of downloading stable code. > Ahem. Tagged releases in source code. Just skipping the step of extracting that into a tarball to pass around. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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