On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:34 AM, David Greaves <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Robinson wrote: >> 2010/4/1 Kimmo Hämäläinen <[email protected]>: >>> On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 20:29 +0200, ext Peter Robinson wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>> Gitorious has it: >>> 1) select a project, e.g. "qemu" >>> 2) click "Source tree" >>> 3) click "Download master as tar.gz" >> >> Yes, that's fine for head, but as discussed elsewhere in the thread it >> doesn't give you the tagged release option, or at least it doesn't >> seem like the option has been enabled for Meego. > > They gave us the very first code drop yesterday. > > The source is all there and you're whining that it's not yet in the right > format > for some unrelated project? > > "its a _LOT_ more work than just clicking on a download link." > > Seriously? That was your complaint about an hour and a half after the code > drop? > > Any sane member of the OSS community would be overjoyed at the provision of > git > repos and the history instead of just tarballs.
David, its just transition from other git repos that were already there, there was functionality there that isn't there now. Its not a new project, its a merger of old projects. I wouldn't have an issue if they'd left the old repos available until the transition was complete but they removed them. Peter _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
