On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 10:07, Erich Titl wrote:
> Mike Noyes wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 13:17, Martin Hejl wrote:
> > 
> >>>Ideally, building from a local working-copy of the repository will be
> >>>fairly easy (it sounds like this is getting tested RealSoonNow).  This
> >>>would separate download problems from actually building the source
> >>>(possibly important for those with flaky internet access, or folks using
> >>>the flaky sourceforge CVS servers! :).
> >>
> >>Well, that's what the whole "we supply a tarball of everything you need,
> >>and put it into FRS" approach was all about. But it seems that is not an
> >>approved approach.
> > 
> > 
> > Martin,
> > That approach is fine. I just thought the tag approach was easier.
> > 
> 
> May I suggest to add a tag anyway for the following reasons
> 
> - tags do not hurt CVS operation in any  way, just make it easier to 
> retrieve a certain version.
> - tags are easy to add
> - tags will work with the current buildtool although it is not used by it
> - adding a tag is faster than to build a tar file, such an archive is a 
> nice shortcut though
> - adding a tag does not create overhead to the CVS archive (unless we 
> use subversion)

Erich,
I agree with all the above, and have advocated tag use since 2002.

http://www.mail-archive.com/leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05183.html

-- 
Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net>
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