Re: sources from git

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

github has an automatic tarball maker/url, but I'm not sure how to
specify specific versions.



On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 09:32:59AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> I think we're going to see more or this as time goes on; more projects
>> seem to be thinking it's ok to expect everyone to track from a VCS,
>> rather than having actual releases.
>
> And the real fix is addressing this issue by educating folks. Release
> management is more than just "pick a version from git". Compared to all
> the work involved with creating a release for even a smaller piece of
> software, creating a tarball is easy.
>
> Joerg