Firstly, apologies for any confusion: Apple Mail has decided it knows best and
has doubled-up the URLs containing { placeholders }. Since the URLs contain
placeholders then they can't be used directly anyway but you knew that. :-)
Secondly, on re-reading, it comes over as instructions for Hraban when it was
meant to be a suggestion to Pablo to try the alternate form of the Github
repository URL first.
> On 19 Dec 2023, at 21:47, Bruce Horrocks <n...@scorecrow.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 19 Dec 2023, at 17:48, Henning Hraban Ramm <te...@fiee.net> wrote:
>>
>> Am 19.12.23 um 18:29 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context:
>>> Hi Hraban and Taco,
>>> the install-modules script doesn’t allow .tar.gz as compression format
>>> to install modules.
>>> .tar.gz seems to be the compression format offered for modules that are
>>> uploaded using a git URL.
>>> Hraban explained in August that the server could be configured to get
>>> .zip compression for modules in git checkout.
>>> Sorry, I know that you are both very busy, but could it be this issue fixed?
>>
>> I looked at the code and don’t understand enough of it… (it’s old Perl CGI
>> code).
>> There are more changes that I’d like to do (e.g. add more licenses – needs
>> db access).
>>
>>> Using git to upload module versions is way more easy than uploading .zip
>>> files.
>>
>> I agree.
>
> The Github API for retrieving a 'zipball' is documented here
> <https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/contents?apiVersion=2022-11-28#download-a-repository-archive-zip>
>
> The explanation of the allowed options is a little terse but, basically, a
> URL of the form
>
>
> https://api.github.com/repos/{OWNER}/{REPO}/zipball<https://api.github.com/repos/%7BOWNER%7D/%7BREPO%7D/zipball>
>
> should be sufficient to result in a zipped download of the repository named
> {REPO} owned by {OWNER}.
>
> You can test manually from a Unix/Linux command line using the command:
>
> $ curl -L
> https://api.github.com/repos/{OWNER}/{REPO}/zipball<https://api.github.com/repos/%7BOWNER%7D/%7BREPO%7D/zipball>
> > results.zip
>
> If the existing Perl CGI uses a curl command like this then it may simply be
> enough for Pablo to specify a suitably formatted Github URL.
>
> Note that the -L is necessary because the Github API generates a temporary,
> time-limited URL and redirects to it by returning a 302 response code.
>
> Regards,
> —
> Bruce Horrocks
> Hampshire, UK
>
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