an update to automake-1.11?

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jul 7 15:21:20 UTC 2009



On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Colin Walters wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Seth Vidal<skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>> I disagree. I think the discrete tarball snapshot of a release will continue
>> for quite some time and I've not seen anyone moving away from that in their
>> public software releases.
>
> It's not so black and white; for example, it often makes sense to pull
> git snapshots of a project during rawhide.  If our tooling made it
> easy to run a command and pull from git I'd definitely use it.  Not
> for all projects, and not all the time, but it'd be useful.
>

umm - I don't think I said tarballs were the only way to do things. I just 
said that I didn't think they were as disused for releases as jesse 
suggested.


-sv




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