Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:32:16PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> So, I'd propose that we move those tarballs to a dedicated >> download location: alioth provides an Anonymous FTP location > > As you know, I don't agree with your point here. But still I fail to > understand why you're so against avaing the tarball in the svn. I'm not
Probably because there isn't anything about history in a tarball: it is never updated and always replaced by a new one with a different filename. Basically it doesn't anything to do in a control version repository. > yet very active on svn but still I can imagine that people that are used > to use svn don't like to much to have to use another method (ftp, http) > to download tarballs. I think we are the only one to use the SVN repo to store tarballs. > What do you think about moving tarballs to a svn directory which is > outside the usual /trunk dir? What about a parallel /tarballs? As long as you propose to keep them in SVN, it doesn't change anything for me :-P -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org
