From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs source snapshots Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 12:38:46 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87k4e64b89.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <1304501969.6763.1448069069@webmail.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304530758 22934 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2011 17:39:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 17:39:18 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 04 19:39:13 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHg2Z-0004wA-5e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 19:39:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37449 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHg2Y-0005Fg-Oa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 13:39:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45593) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHg2W-0005Fb-3p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 13:39:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHg2Q-0003kx-5o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 13:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:53697) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHg2P-0003ke-Or for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 13:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHg2N-0004po-PF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 19:38:59 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 May 2011 19:38:59 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 May 2011 19:38:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KBPHy6UvOmh602YVu6+n6e67uC0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:139112 Archived-At: On Wed, 04 May 2011 12:39:29 +0300 "Grigorios Bouzakis" wrote: GB> Hello, is it possible to provide frequent source snapshots of the GB> Emacs source tree? For example once a week? The git tree from github GB> [1] [2] is currently > 700 mb, its getting bigger on each commit and GB> pretty fast. I dont know how big the bzr tree currently is. It would GB> be useful for people who dont want to get directly involved with Emacs GB> development, but still want a very recent version of it. For most GB> these people keeping track of commit history doesnt make sense. GB> AFAIK there is an unofficial repository providing binary packages for GB> Debian and Ubuntu packages [3] plus Ubuntu has emacs-snapshot in their GB> universe repository but package is from 2009 [4]. Hopefully providing GB> frequent snapshots of the sources tree will ease things for everyone GB> as the Emacs sources without commit history are ~100mb. Anyone else GB> finds this a good idea? GB> [1]: https://github.com/emacsmirror/emacs GB> [2]: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsFromGit GB> [3]: http://emacs.naquadah.org GB> [4]: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=emacs-snapshot It's pretty trivial to export the source tree from Bazaar: # also can use .zip and other formats, see "bzr export --help" # exports latest revision by default bzr export snapshot.tgz http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk/ That could be done nightly and hosted somewhere I guess. For me it was a large (700+ MB) download resulting in a 33MB tgz file so it definitely makes sense for both the server load and the network transfer to host it. Ted