From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
To: dedekind1@gmail.com
Cc: Bruno Cornec <bruno@project-builder.org>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, twebb <taliaferro62@gmail.com>,
David.Woodhouse@intel.com
Subject: Re: latest MTD-utils
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:42:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxrb17l5.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1285079252.7512.136.camel@localhost> (Artem Bityutskiy's message of "Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:27:32 +0300")
>>>>> "Artem" == Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> writes:
Hi,
Artem> It is not too difficult to provide tarball, but this is
Artem> something developers do not care about, they develop. Packagers
Artem> do care, and it is saner when packagers do this, not developers.
Artem> I was in LinuxCon Brazil this year, and there was this presentation:
Artem> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/2010/linuxcon-brazil/cornec
Artem> where bruno said exactly the same. And he was promoting his
Artem> project which claims to be able to pick sources from anywhere -
Artem> git, svn, whatever.
Artem> So the question is, why Buildroot cannot adjust to the reality
Artem> (which is that developers in average do not care about tarballs)
Artem> and cannot be improved?
Sure, buildroot can fetch from git - That's not the problem. All I'm
asking for is a bit of consistency to lower the amount of confusion:
- Either provide tarballs like in the past
- Or clearly state that you don't (website, readme on ftp site) and
(re)move the old releases so people don't think that's where they are
supposed to find releases (E.G. google for
ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/mtd-utils/ and see the amount of references)
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-21 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-20 22:47 latest MTD-utils twebb
2010-09-21 7:25 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-09-21 13:45 ` Peter Korsgaard
2010-09-21 13:51 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-09-21 13:54 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-09-21 14:07 ` Peter Korsgaard
2010-09-21 14:27 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-09-21 14:42 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2010-09-23 12:03 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-09-23 12:13 ` Peter Korsgaard
2010-09-22 22:47 ` Bruno Cornec
2010-09-21 15:24 ` David Woodhouse
2010-09-21 14:03 ` twebb
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