Source tarballs

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 03/01/2008, Xiomara Jayasena <Xiomara.Jayasena at sun.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> Tom Marble wrote:
>
> I'd like to ask if we (Sun) can reconsider publishing one (1)
> source tarball for promoted builds.
>
>
> Yes it is definitely being considered -- as it makes sense, especially if
> it is difficult for people to pull down the 7 tar balls that currently exist
> now. There are a couple of ways to go about this so that will need to be
> sorted out.
>
> Best regards,
> -Xiomara
>
>
>

Maybe I'm missing something here, but surely it just takes someone at Sun to
pull the b24 changeset using fclone, remove the hg metadata, tarball it and
upload it to the site?
This would be a lot simpler than pushing the Mercurial+forest extension
requirement on to every downstream consumer.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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