On Mon, 16 Jun 2014, Jed Brown wrote: > > I propose we stop making PETSc snapshots and instead people who > > want to work with the development version can use git. If people > > have machines they want to use petsc-dev on but they don’t have git > > on that machine that is their problem, not ours. > > Bitbucket provides tarball downloads of any version (commit, tag, or > branch). People can download those if for some reason they can't use > Git. I don't think we need to hold their hand to do that.
This is one of the bullets I mentiond for future changes to giturl. But this tarball not equivalent to release tarball [as it might not have some of the buildtools prebuilt into the tarball - so has extra requirements - similar to git-clone] Satish
