On 13/10/2009, Neil Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > Would it be possible to get plain tarballs of freepascal hosted on the > website?
You can get .tgz or .zip files from the Git mirror. http://github.com/graemeg/freepascal/downloads Alternatively (seeing that I did not tag the 2.2 and 2.2.4 releases), you can clone the Git repository (only needed once). You can then get updates as you need them (git compresses all updates before they go over the wire, so downloading updates are really small). You can then ask git to generate _clean_ archives of your local git repository. Any revision, any branch or any tag. Git generates plain tar files (default archive format of 'git archive' command), but also supports zip or tar.gz etc.. Here are a few examples of creating such archives: generate a archive of the v2.0.2 tag (you can specify a revision too): $ git archive --prefix=fpc-2.0.2/ v2.0.2 --output=fpc-2.0.2.tar resulting in a file named fpc-2.0.2.tar. The source code inside the tar archive will have a "fpc-2.0.2" directory as the root directory. or generates a archive of v2.0.2 branch and then gzip it: $ git archive --prefix=fpc-2.0.2/ v2.0.2 | gzip > fpc-2.0.2.tar.gz resulting in a file named fpc-2.0.2.tar.gz or generates a archive of v2.5.1 (trunk) branch and then zip it: $ git archive --format=zip --prefix=fpc-2.5.1/ HEAD --output=fpc-trunk.zip You can then very easily maintain your own plain tarballs, and no need to download huge archives every so many months. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
