On 2011-10-24 22:23 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Oct 22, 2011, at 10:48, Joshua Root wrote:
> 
>> Anyway, if we had this functionality, it wouldn't be inconceivable to
>> extend it to be able to take a VCS URL, export a tarball onto the
>> distfiles server, and show the checksums. That would really take away
>> any excuse of it being inconvenient to manually generate and host a
>> tarball for each release.
> 
> That sounds like a good idea, and not too difficult. I could probably whip up 
> a script to do that. But would our servers at Mac OS Forge be able to run it? 
> They can't fetch from anything other than http and https URLs, and some 
> repositories are not available via those protocols.

Good point; I guess something that runs locally would be better for
generating and checksumming the tarball.

- Josh
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