Jonathan Gray writes: > The indiedb mirror Red Eclipse uses is not suitable for ports hence the > use of github. It was pointed out to me recently that the port stopped > building. Turns out they restructured the github repositories into a > large number of submodules. > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/red-eclipse/base/master/.gitmodules > > Here is an diff to update to a newer release from the stable branch > and adapt to the changed repository structure. I'm not aware of > a way to ask github for a tarball that already includes all the > submodules.
As far as I'm aware Github doesn't provide any such thing. Thus upstreams should be prodded to make actual release tarballs and attach them to the tag (which Github does support). Bonus: this also lets them include pregenerated configure scripts and so on, and signatures for said tarballs. -- Anthony J. Bentley
