Hi, On 30/04/2012, Sylvain Le Gall <sylv...@le-gall.net> wrote: > Hi, > > 2012/4/30 Markus Mottl <markus.mo...@gmail.com> > >> Hi, >> >> is it advisable to create Godi packages that check out a labeled >> version from a version control system rather than download tarballs? >> E.g. if I want to make a new release, I'd ideally just want to update >> the version number in the Godi-Makefile rather than having to create a >> tarball, upload it to some website, get its size and sha1sum, and >> finally add this information to Godi. One downside would likely be >> somewhat diminished security, since the sha1sum and size may not be >> stable (the VC might use updated archive and compression tools to send >> you a tarball). >> >> Any ideas whether it's worthwhile for me to go into that direction, or >> should I better stick to the old & trusted but more cumbersome way? >> > > Well, it will make GODI depends on git/hg/darcs/svn/whatever, which will > imply increased complexity. You also have to think of other packagers > (Debian/Fedora/Mageia) that will have the same problem. And so on and so > forth. > > I tend to think that distributing source code directly from VCS checkout is > not a good idea -- it seems convenient at first glance but breaks a lot of > convention.
On the opposite, I've found it pretty convenient for development with lablgtk2. But as an option and not a dedicated package which would probably be overkill. It'd be nice to be able to do that for each package and it's still manageable for ocaml stuff (but it'll only get more and more complex). -- Adrien Nader _______________________________________________ Godi-list mailing list Godi-list@ocaml-programming.de https://godirepo.camlcity.org/mailman/listinfo/godi-list
