[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Useful way to provide activity sources tarballs

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'm remebering there was a talk about providing activity source
> > tarballs from ASLO. Right now, all development work in thie area
> > is being concentrated around Sugar Network[1] that is intended to be
> > a successor (at least on low level) of ASLO.
> >
> > This month I'm working on making full mirroring of ASLO activities on SN
> > and can implement such feature. It might look like that activity
> > developers won't take care about providing tarballs, only regular ASLO
> > upload (that will be supplement later by direct SN upload). SN will
> > automatically convert .xo into .tar.gz on demand.
>
> Why not just produce a standard tar ball. There are differences
> (although only small) between the two.
>
> Peter
>

Since tarballs are created with setup.py dist_source, why not automate this?

Gonzalo
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