On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:01:40 +0100 Stefan Husmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I think more important than the form the sources are hosted (git or > tarball) is if the program is to be considered stable. To me a > program is stable if new versions do only deliver bug fixes and minor > improvements. I think this is the case here. So I would prefer to use > the PKGBUILD in AUR over a to-be-written PKGBUILD for some tarball > version, also because the former is the one which has 427 votes. Development is quite fast-paced, with a new release every few weeks, often bringing big changes. api, config syntax etc are definitely not stable yet. It makes maintaining packages a bit more work, but IMHO it doesn't change anything to the pro's and cons of official binary packages vs git packages in AUR, so I think a binary package is useful. But Bîru has told me he wants to maintain packages in community, so my problem is solved. Dieter
