Karl Berry <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Collin, > > An easier way, if you only require a few files and/or cannot remember > that git invocation > > Well, whatever the invocation is has to be in a script/Makefile in any > case to be used repeatedly, so it's not a matter of remembering it. I > certainly didn't have it memorized, I copied that bit of shell from my > script that does it.
True. I have seen very outdated texinfo.tex files (e.g. earlier than 2010), though, so some people might just run it once and forget until a bug pops up. Of course, I like your solution better. > is to fetch them using wget or curl. > > Except, as you know, using wget/curl with savannah to retrieve files > adds to the load on savannah web servers, which are already continously > overstressed. Thus it is better to use other methods, in the sense of > doing something which will work for everyone, instead of being > (sometimes) the most convenient for an individual. Categorical > imperative and all that. > > As for github ... it just feels weird to me to rely on github for free > software projects. Just MHO. -k I agree regarding GitHub, but for this purpose it doesn't seem too bad. The link I shared is the file itself, so it doesn't require non-free JavaScript like the rest of the site. And Microsoft is paying for the tiny amount of egress instead of the FSF. :) Collin
