On 2015-03-31 14:48:29, Andrew Fish wrote:
>      On Mar 31, 2015, at 2:41 PM, Jordan Justen <jordan.l.jus...@intel.com>
>      wrote:
>      On 2015-03-31 12:03:48, Zimmer, Vincent wrote:
> 
>        Good question.
>        Code has been public in a zip on http://firmware.intel.com for some
>        time.
> 
>      Strange. I don't know why posting a .zip on a website would be
>      preferable to having it in a repo. Was it not under an open source
>      license previously?
> 
>    Posting a .zip is what Intel loves to do with all kinds of code.

Great! Since every commit and tag of a git repo is easily downloadable
as a .zip (or .tar.gz), then moving to git should be a win-win, right?

;)

-Jordan

>    I assume it dates back to the day when SCM systems cost big bucks and not
>    every one used the same system. So the ZIP file was Least Common
>    Denominator. 
>    Thanks,
>    Andrew Fish

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