On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:02:50PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > 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 > 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. > > What do you think about moving tarballs to a svn directory which is > outside the usual /trunk dir? What about a parallel /tarballs?
I would oppose this, it doesn't bring much (the aim of removing the tarballs being to save space in the svn repository i guess), and it makes things more difficult. Friendly, Sven Luther
