> On Mar 2, 2015, at 4:40 AM, Clemens Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Still wish developers would provide proper release tarballs which would 
>> obviate
>> the need...
> 
> It's convenient for developers to just use the submodules. As long as we just
> fetch the tags, there's nothing they can do. Of course, they could use 
> github's
> release feature, though.

if we put some automation in place so it was easy for a portfile author to 
create/post a distfile (that gets mirrored on our mirrors), we wouldn't have to 
deal with this at all, right?

I still think doing that (and possibly removing support for fetching via a SCM, 
or at least discouraging it and only using it if a license prohibits us from 
mirroring the distfile) would be a better solution.

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