On Saturday 25 February 2012, Michael Nagel wrote: > Hi Ruediger, > > >> I am looking for an official, public repository of the xsane > >> source code. Is there such a thing, and if yes, where is it? > > > > Don't think there is one - just tar balls. > > In my personal opinion it's no longer up to current > development/publication standards to only release tarballs nowadays > for open source projects. Therefore I'd be interested to see your > repository on github (or a similarly public place).
It's already there https://github.com/rudimeier/xsane I guess I've omitted some stupid (unintended disributed) files like *.o, *~ etc. Don't remember exactly because it's a month ago. In doubt you may diff at least the last commit against the original tar ball. > An officially > blessed/advertised repository would be even better, of course. And > the best thing (in my opinion) would be to really do the development > using a distributed version control system. xsane looks a bit dead anyway. Last release is more than 3 years ago. I'd planned to fix some issues I have and ask Oliver Rauch what's going on with xsane but actually I haven't done it yet. > Of course I cannot demand a official git repository, and if tarballs > work better for the developers so be it, but I really only see > advantages with distributed version control vs. tarballs. I'd be > interested to learn any reasons speaking against version control. If > there are no counter-arguments, I think it would be a great idea to > start mirroring the tarballs in a git repo and work towards making > that repository official... cu, Rudi