The arch people do make a valid point, it really isn't that hard to produce a tarball when doing the 'release ahoy' announcement.
I asked about this before (on the IRC maybe?), why not just do a svn export and have everyone build from that instead of using specific svn tags/versions? Everyone's happy and it occasionally finds issues like building blender outside a svn checkout was producing wonky version numbers on the splash screen for a while there. For most software I need to update for whatever reason I take the official .spec file, bump the version numbers and build/install the package(s) but the few times I tried that with the blender.spec it didn't work out so well. Since blender updates deps a lot faster than distros this happens more often than you'd think. So I'd like to propose that producing a source tarball become an official part of the release process. As an aside, it would probably help to 'spread the love' if packagers *cough*fedora*cough* didn't complain when you file bug reports against their packages. Dan _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
