On Jun 16, 2014, at 8:32 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: >> Jed seems to be saying, "if you just want to use the package for >> compiling then use —download-xxx otherwise go through the manual >> process of getting the damn package yourself and go through all >> the manual steps”. I say that is silly since —download-xxx already >> exists and can do 95% of what is needed already I never want to go >> through the manual steps even if I am contributing to that other >> package. > > Are you going to add the appropriate upstream workflow to all the > --download packages? This sounds intractable.
I am not putting upstream workflow into any download packages. I am wanting to do something very simple, let —download-xxx replace me manually git clone xxxx; git checkout yyyy on some package. That is all. (Where yyy may be a branch or a commit-hash depending on the circumstances). Barry
