From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Grigorios Bouzakis" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Emacs source snapshots Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 12:39:29 +0300 Message-ID: <1304501969.6763.1448069069@webmail.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304528189 6137 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2011 16:56:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 16:56:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 04 18:56:24 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 1QHfN9-0003md-Qg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 18:56:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55186 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHfN9-00080T-4D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 12:56:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60880) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHYYP-0005lI-HL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 05:39:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHYYN-0005YL-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 05:39:33 -0400 Original-Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:58245) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHYYN-0005Xw-QZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 05:39:31 -0400 Original-Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE08420874 for ; Wed, 4 May 2011 05:39:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from web3.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.213]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 04 May 2011 05:39:29 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:subject:date; s=smtpout; bh=GJajv/4W/TGVN4yiY45YC1lpb0Y=; b=oRSdc+kpTAiOe8lwiaEU6/eCQ2rKnhwE1OLnq6jb/4pg1WzzWXj+M90n87Snd3r9qspdDUol8wa18SdZxVzI9dOOeUnTx6GcPEikhPMRqCs6xlm/SnaOaQ9X/cqo/uWSQIF2dLb8Re2j56+cEeipT4mPoTu/irhOw9R49wE8Tl0= Original-Received: by web3.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id A0437A2232E; Wed, 4 May 2011 05:39:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Sasl-Enc: 9Yz7ijA39su/rebtk26GFp+xfKbJvQi5KwhpeU/B4JVk 1304501969 X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 66.111.4.26 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 04 May 2011 12:56:21 -0400 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:139110 Archived-At: Hello, is it possible to provide frequent source snapshots of the Emacs source tree? For example once a week? The git tree from github [1] [2] is currently > 700 mb, its getting bigger on each commit and pretty fast. I dont know how big the bzr tree currently is. It would be useful for people who dont want to get directly involved with Emacs development, but still want a very recent version of it. For most these people keeping track of commit history doesnt make sense. AFAIK there is an unofficial repository providing binary packages for Debian and Ubuntu packages [3] plus Ubuntu has emacs-snapshot in their universe repository but package is from 2009 [4]. Hopefully providing frequent snapshots of the sources tree will ease things for everyone as the Emacs sources without commit history are ~100mb. Anyone else finds this a good idea? [1]: https://github.com/emacsmirror/emacs [2]: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsFromGit [3]: http://emacs.naquadah.org [4]: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=emacs-snapshot -- Greg