Some other options: - He could have a "hidden" folder somewhere with the sources. He then could just not tell people about that. - You could do some serious hacks and have a script click through the download dialog and get the source as a human would. Bad for PKGBUILDS.
The SVN route is pretty good, I think. -AT On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:07 AM, <hollun...@gmx.at> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:57:50 +0800 > Ray Rashif <schivmeis...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yeah I was planning on that, but it doesn't affect me as much yet >> since I already have the 2.8 source downloaded before Paul Davis >> decided on this new distribution method. However, it will keep the >> package in [extra] from being updated. >> >> And that made my day too..I should browse the forums on a regular >> basis again =/ > > It's still possible to download the source tarball without donation, > but not automatically (you might need this next week for 2.8.1). > I doubt he'll provide us with a direct link to the source tarball > because this would ruin his system (eg. forcing people to go through > his donation dialogue). > > I'll ask him if I should add some post install message to my package. > > In the meanwhile my package (hopefully) works by checking out the svn > repository by tag. > > Best regards, > Philipp >
