Chris Rees wrote on 10.09.2011 21:58:
On 10 September 2011 18:47, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov<cvs-...@yandex.ru> wrote:
Chris Rees wrote on 10.09.2011 21:33:
Counterexamples welcome!
Chris
When i worked on net/erlyvideo port there on github were tarballs for some
old versions of it. When i asked author to create tarballs for new versions
too, he just delete all the tarballs :)
So i just create and host them by myself.
Hm, plain spiteful. I like to think (or hope) that's not
representative of most of our upstream friends ;)
Yep, for the second (and last) example - mediacore guys also ignored my
request. But they use tags on github and has tarballs on main website.
The main question is, is it worth us writing code to handle a small
minority of projects that refuse, or is it just easier to host this
same minority ourselves?
Sure it worth. From my POV, maintainer should be avoided the pleasure to
mess with selfhosted and selfpackaged tarballs as much as possible.
Besides of inconvenience it also less reliable (both in availability and
security aspects).
I'm perfectly happy to mirror anything if needed, by the way.
Chris
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Regards,
Ruslan
Tinderboxing kills... the drives.
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