[mcclim-devel] Question about source tarball

[Mike McDonald]

>To: mcclim-devel at common-lisp.net
>Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:52:58 +0100
>From: 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.

  The web page is from when I was hosting McCLIM. I was making a
nightly tarball of just the sources. I guess the common-lisp.net guys
got their shell script wrong.

  Mike McDonald
  mikemac at mikemac.com