Ardour 5.0

[IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)]

On 08/26/2016 09:24 AM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
> 2016-08-15 22:13 GMT+02:00 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> ardour 5.0 has been released. I tried download source for updating,
>> but getting only empty tarball.
>> Anybody knows whats can be wrong?
>>
>> https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/tags
>>
>> Last working tag seems to be 5.0-pre0 :(
> 
> ardour 5.1 is out ... I still don't have a idea how get a tarball :(


indeed the github download seems to be very broken.
it seems that this is intentional (at least that is how i interpret the
line `/* export-ignore` in .gitattributes¹).
i guess this is to force people to download via the ardour website².
...
actually i just checked the commit message on .gitattributes, and it
seems that the reason is technical by nature: the build-system in git
Depends on `git desscribe` working (something which we would patch away
in Debian but which of course is inconvenient for "ordinary" users of
the source exports)

anyhow, i just fetched the upstream tarball and ran gbp-import-orig on it.
it should be possible (and possibly simple) to hack the d/watch to run
the actual download from the official download site, and use github only
as an announcement channel to check for new releases.
since robin is a both a major contributor to ardour these days and a DM
in our team, he might be able to shed some light (and code)...

gmads
IOhannes


¹ i didn't know about the possibility to exclude files from an export; i
think it is a cool feature when not used to just block the entire export)
² http://community.ardour.org/srctar

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