On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Chen Lei <supercyper1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2010/7/10 pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx>: >> Yes, but most of the Netbook side of things are from Moblin. Also if >> you look at a lot of the clutter/mx and other stuff they now do make >> tarballs and in some cases only in the last weeks. Don't rule it out. >> After all they cut tar files for the rpms, all they have to do it >> publish them separately. In the Moblin case it was just resources that >> stopped them originally and they eventually started to do it. >> > Historically, moblin VCS have the function of making tarballs > automatically, but they don't publish them to some other places for > downloading. Meego moved all those packages to gitorious now, it seems > like gitorious don't have the same function, so I think we can hardly > assume meego will publish all tarballs soon based on the fact that a > few widely-used packages(e.g. clutter mx qt pyside) in gitorious > release tarballs publicly now. By the way, those well-known packages > don't belong to meego project now, they all have seperate website. > Except there's a change in the infrastructure of gitorious, I think > using tarballs from upstream's SRPM is a better choice than pulling > source from git repo directly. > I experienced this recently with another project (openSUSE's build service client) -- GitHub lets you download a project's tagged snapshots as tarballs, but Gitorious does not have this functionality. I'll have to agree with Chen Lei here. It would be much easier to upstream bug reports -- so people running MeeGo can easily verify them -- if the same tarball is used to build the software in the first place. Best regards, -- Michel Alexandre Salim Fedora Project Contributor: http://fedoraproject.org/ Email: salimma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | GPG key ID: 78884778 Jabber: hircus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | IRC: hircus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
