On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:06, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> I do not see that being in any way superior, and my way allows us to pull
> directly from the HDF5 site.
>

Keeping a repo allows us to version patches. With a repository, you can
always generate a single complete patch against the upstream release
version. It's not clear to me that rolling our own tarball is better or
worse than patching from upstream.
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