We'll take it into advisement, but it's extremely unlikely we'll do any regex magic to strip things from tag names.
- Kyle On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Avery Pennarun <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Kyle Neath <[email protected]> wrote: > > For your particular project, it may not cause problems. But throwing > around > > regex's often have unintended consequences. > > > > I'm open to suggestions to make our downloads better, I'm just failing to > > see a problem that needs fixing. If I download > "bup-bup-v2.1-0ccc.tar.gz" I > > am just as likely to use the software as if I download "bup-v2.1.tar.gz" > > As it happens, you'd be downloading something even worse: > apenwarr-bup-bup-1.40-0-g1234567.tar.gz, which is just incredibly > unwieldy compared to the equally precise and much more succinct > bup-1.40.tar.gz. > > Basically, tarballs exported in this way are just not very helpful to > the kinds of people who need tarballs. One of the most important > (imho) reasons to have tarballs at all is so that distributions like > Debian/Fedora/etc can use them as the official "upstream version" when > building their packages. Distros like Debian get particularly uptight > about renaming or modifying the upstream tarball; the whole point of > their system is that the changes Debian made vs. upstream are always > kept completely separate. > > I'm not the first one to have this problem: > http://blog.usarundbrief.com/?p=36 > > But his method doesn't work (anymore?) for anything except (possibly) > the Pause server he's using. > > With my proposed change, lots of projects will have the auto-generated > tarballs just automagically have the right name, rather than *all* of > them having a bad name. Even if the "regexes have unintended > consequences", the worst that can happen is that you still have an > unhelpful name. (Although I can't actually imagine anything bad that > these prefix-stripping regexes could actually do.) > > I'll put the question back to you: why *is* the current behaviour to > use such verbose names? Who benefits from that? > > Thanks, > > Avery > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GitHub" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<github%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en.
