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 _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
