On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 07:16:29PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 11:46 -0600, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> >
>> >> Are there plans to make release version source tar files available for
>> >> download like previously were available at
>> >> http://download.moblin.org/sources/
>> >
>> > Not sure - I think we'd prefer to just open the git trees (which are
>> > already available). What's the specific need for tar files?
>>
>> Makes it much easier to use the components in other projects. Its
>> useful for things like libsocialweb that are useful elsewhere. It also
>> seems AFAICT that gitorious doesn't offer the ability to download tar
>> files based on git tags like git.moblin.org did. But I've not used
>> gitorious before so it might be that I just can't find it.
>
> You can always just check out the git tree and use git to generate a
> tarball based on a tag on your own if you really need it.
>
> Will that suffice?

Well at this point it doesn't look like I have an option but its a
_LOT_ more work than just clicking on a download link. All other
projects generally provide the ability to download tar files. Its
fairly universal.

Peter
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