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On 06/26/10 20:59, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:46:39 +0200 |
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> Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote: |
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>> BTW: if upstream has an proper VCS and an canonical tagging |
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>> scheme, they don't actually have to create release tarballs, |
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>> just hack up a little script which creates them on-the-fly |
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>> from an canonical URL scheme (eg. oss-qm does exactly that). |
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> Down that path lies madness. There's no guarantee that you'll get the |
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> same tarball if you request the same URL twice in a row, particularly |
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> if you're using one of those new-fangled new compression schemes. |
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I agree with Ciaran here, to add one more thing: tags can be mutable. |
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