[mcclim-devel] Question about source tarball

[Stefan Lang]

On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:45, you wrote:
> Stefan Lang <langstefan at gmx.at> writes:
> > 2. I expected the get something like "svn export" would
> >    give me for an svn repository. Is that expectation wrong
> >    and the tarball (intentionally) contains the whole CVS
> >    repository?!
>
> You have downloaded a CVS snapshot, I guess it contains the CVS
> control files on purpose. I believe that the CVS snapshots are
> autocreated by common-lisp.net, so I doubt we'd be able to do much
> about it.

IMO, then the sentence
"A compressed tar file of the sources is made nightly."
on the webpage is misleading and should instead be
something like: "Here is a backup of the entire CVS repository."

I'll just checkout via cvs.

Thanks,
  Stefan