>> Axiom is currently available as tarballs and binaries. >> It is also available thru git, arch, cvs, and svn. >> Master copies of releases are updated every other month on >> sourceforge, savannah, github, and axiom-developer.org > >This scheme actually is problematic. We need tarballs or other >reliable forms of distribution (like ZIP archives), so that we >could have reliable cryptographic sums. VCS access is problematic. > >In WIP (http://pkgsrc-wip.sf.net/) there's support for VCS-based >packages, but those are really unreliable. I maintain several of >them, and have to admit it myself. To support you need to be able >to reproduce bugs. With VCS-based package it is problematic.
Git maintains a cryptographic hash that gives exact information about the source tree in use. Tim _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
