On 2011-07-14 at 08:51:22 +0200, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > On 07/14/2011 03:27 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > > Michel Alexandre Salim <[email protected]> writes: > > > >> Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but is 1.0.1 the latest stable > >> release? The website still links to 1.0.0; if everyone is using Git > >> perhaps the tarball should simply be removed and people encouraged to > >> either export the tarball themselves or use Gitorious' facility.
I suspect that most people who are going to use the stable releases are using the packages for their own distribution rather than the tarball, and I guess that packagers are on this mailing list and read the announcements. > I phrased it badly, my mistake. I meant that, if released versions are > tagged in Git, Gitorious already provides auto-generated tarballs. It's > not as ideal as the releases being explicitly made available on a > download page, but it's better than having the two being inconsistent. Personally as a writer of package creation scripts I've never liked much those, but it's still better than having to checkout the tag in git. -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' homepage: http://www.trueelena.org _______________________________________________ Be-devel mailing list [email protected] http://void.printf.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/be-devel
