[csw-maintainers] support for GitHub hosted repositories

[Ben Walton]

Cool. That is a good feature then!

Thanks
-Ben
On Jun 3, 2013 9:55 AM, "Peter FELECAN" <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:

> Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> writes:
>
> > Also note that I added generic git (git or http protocol) support a few
> > years back. It supports arbitrary treeish targets.
> >
> > The downside I found was permissions when a subsequent maintainer wants
> to
> > pull. I never got sons to forcing usable permissions in the garchive
> > directory. A second downside was needing to v drive the auto tools setup
> > every time.
> >
> > There are a few examples if using this support in the tree still.
>
> I have seen that. However, what I implemented is downloading tarballs
> fro GitHub and that has less issues even tough the autotools part can be
> necessary which I don't see as an issue but a feature...
> --
> Peter
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