From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs source snapshots
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 12:38:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4e64b89.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1304501969.6763.1448069069@webmail.messagingengine.com
On Wed, 04 May 2011 12:39:29 +0300 "Grigorios Bouzakis" <grbzks@xsmail.com> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-04 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-04 9:39 Emacs source snapshots Grigorios Bouzakis
2011-05-04 17:38 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-05-04 18:40 ` chad
2011-05-04 19:05 ` Jan Janak
2011-05-04 19:45 ` Grigorios Bouzakis
2011-05-05 4:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-05-05 2:58 ` Leo
2011-05-05 17:39 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-05-05 19:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-05 23:29 ` chad
2011-05-06 2:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-06 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-05 6:48 ` Christian Ohler
2011-05-05 19:39 ` Grigorios Bouzakis
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