an update to automake-1.11?
Jesse Keating
jkeating at redhat.com
Tue Jul 7 22:37:45 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 18:16 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Jesse Keating writes:
>
> > These days distributing via tarball is bizarre. Distributed source
> > control is changing the way that projects work and release. Sure there are
> > plenty of projects out here that don't work this way but more and more are
> > headed in this direction.
>
> Yes. If I get the desire to build a new library, or something, I always want
> to just find the URL to the upstream's source control repo, then check out
> whatever I find in there, and run with it. I'm confident that I will never
> have any problems building it, and it won't have any issues.
>
> This is the best and the most reliable mechanism of downloading stable code.
>
Ahem. Tagged releases in source code. Just skipping the step of
extracting that into a tarball to pass around.
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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