Re: [9fans] sources/contrib

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

On Nov 20, 2007 4:57 PM, Federico Benavento <benavento@gmail.com> wrote:
> lsr, replica, for me are the same.
> I don't wan't people to have to download
> a big .tgz just because I edited one line
> of code. Plus with the ported stuff it gets
> worst, there are people that because
> of lack of memory, or whatever can't
> even build the libs, that's why I'm
> including binaries

Maybe we could fix swap instead so people could actually build stuff
without crashing their kernels?

> replica was already there,

I don't like replica, it is too fragile and too slow, but I don't
think my opinion on this matters much.

(Now that we have python we could use hg... although I fail to quite
see the issue with plain tarballs)

uriel

>the principle
> still applies, you can't keeping track
> of files inside tar files is not the same.
>
>
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> On Nov 20, 2007 12:53 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > > or we could just leave things as they are
> > > making difficult to keep track of changes.
> >
> > if one is without replica, one can track changes on sources
> > with history and ls -ltr.
> >
> > this is how i keep track of changes on my systems so
> > it's more consistent, if not better, than using replica.
> >
> > - erik
> >
> >
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> --
> Federico G. Benavento
>