From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Oy43M-0005c2-Rx for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:42:41 +0000 Received: by wwb24 with SMTP id 24so5820352wwb.18 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:42:39 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Peter Korsgaard From: Peter Korsgaard To: dedekind1@gmail.com Subject: Re: latest MTD-utils References: <1285053950.7512.5.camel@localhost> <871v8n2osc.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1285077063.7512.120.camel@localhost> <1285077268.7512.121.camel@localhost> <87sk131977.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1285079252.7512.136.camel@localhost> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:42:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1285079252.7512.136.camel@localhost> (Artem Bityutskiy's message of "Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:27:32 +0300") Message-ID: <87mxrb17l5.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Bruno Cornec , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, twebb , David.Woodhouse@intel.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , >>>>> "Artem" == Artem Bityutskiy 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