[sane-devel] daily git snapshots

[Rolf Bensch]

Hi Olaf

Am 04.03.2018 um 02:52 schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen:
> ...
> 
> Sorry about that.  Should be fixed now.
> 

The last file on the website is from 28-Feb-2018 00:05

> # Not quite sure why that happened but I suspect I made a mistake with
> # the ln command.  It doesn't seem to be caused by the update-htdocs.sh
> # script.  IIUC, that script runs daily.
> 
> Anyway, given the (in)frequency with which our repositories are pushed
> to I wonder if it makes sense to drop the daily git snapshots in favour
> of the source tarballs created by our CI setup on every push.
> 
> # Sometimes weeks go by without a commit ;-)
> 
> The git snapshots are *not* the same as the source tarballs.  The former
> are the result of
> 
>   git archive --format=tar --prefix=sane-backends-$(date +%Y%m%d) master
> 
> whereas the latter are the result of
> 
>   make dist
> 

This is exactly what I need.

> So the latter are equivalent to what we eventually release.
> 
> How easy/hard would it be to change things on your end to use the CI
> source tarballs?  Should I submit an issue for that on GitLab?
> 
> ...

On my point of view, daily git snapshots without any changes make no sense.

Thanks.
Rolf