* Ciaran McCreesh <[email protected]> schrieb:
> 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.

Well, with git this works. (I'll yet have to run some automatic
stress tests, but at all my manual tests worked really fine).
*If* this might not work somewhere, the little generator script
could create the tarball only once (on first request) and use
it all the time. Or add some commit/push hook, etc, etc.


cu
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