On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Jed Brown wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:06, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote: > > > I do not see that being in any way superior, and my way allows us to pull > > directly from the HDF5 site. > > > > Keeping a repo allows us to version patches. With a repository, you can > always generate a single complete patch against the upstream release > version.
> It's not clear to me that rolling our own tarball is better or > worse than patching from upstream. Rolling our own tarball should be an intermediate solution until the issue gets fixed in the upstream traball.. [we should send patches/bugreports to upstream. sometimes were are lazy wrt this..] Satish