On 22/02/2013 08:37, Kent Fredric wrote:
> I'd make sure to add some sort of easy support to switch to
> snapshotted tar.gz installs instead of live git checkouts, ie:
> 
> GH_SNAPSHOT=deadbeef  # use commit id 'deadbeef' by fetching a tar.gz
> from github instead of a git clone

This is not going to fly because a live git checkout does not need
digests in the manifest, but a tar.gz snapshot does.

I'm not against having a common way to deal with github project as they
are common, but just having a wrapper for a few variables is not worth
it IMHO.

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