On 06/26/10 20:59, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:46:39 +0200 > Enrico Weigelt <[email protected]> wrote: >> BTW: if upstream has an proper VCS and an canonical tagging >> scheme, they don't actually have to create release tarballs, >> just hack up a little script which creates them on-the-fly >> from an canonical URL scheme (eg. oss-qm does exactly that). > > Down that path lies madness. There's no guarantee that you'll get the > same tarball if you request the same URL twice in a row, particularly > if you're using one of those new-fangled new compression schemes.
I agree with Ciaran here, to add one more thing: tags can be mutable. -- Krzysztof Pawlik <nelchael at gentoo.org> key id: 0xF6A80E46 desktop-misc, java, apache, ppc, vim, kernel, python...
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