From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs source snapshots Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 10:58:46 +0800 Message-ID: References: <1304501969.6763.1448069069@webmail.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304564347 5892 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2011 02:59:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 02:59:07 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 05 04:59:03 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 1QHomM-0003YN-QV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 04:59:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34240 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHomM-00056p-F8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 22:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38878) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHomK-00056k-23 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 22:59:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHomI-0004uU-PP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 22:59:00 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:34103) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHomI-0004uN-F0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 22:58:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHomG-0003XX-Vc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 May 2011 04:58:56 +0200 Original-Received: from 123.114.52.195 ([123.114.52.195]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 May 2011 04:58:56 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by 123.114.52.195 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 May 2011 04:58:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.114.52.195 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoBAMAAAB+0KVeAAAAMFBMVEUaFRZLMy1dTENxVzKQ WiCrXQ97cmO/dSqSh3akjGTApXy5sJ7Sxo/Sz8Xo6eP9//xJbkruAAAAAWJLR0QAiAUdSAAAAAlw SFlzAAACxQAAAsUBidZ/7wAAAAd0SU1FB9cBBwMJOwHXewoAAAIBSURBVCjPVdNBiNNAFADQ6J4F x3hThHZBBC+WCFI8SS0iezRDcMHLHkLAg6gJH/fgYQ9xYlj2sLK4KHgqCgXFhda2Idmr4kkQPZQ0 nkQMbTypbMmMM2m7ZgYSmMef/5OZPwo7HFnx3uKPcmj0Dht1LWZJ+Hvr7dIFZXRUwl9VRTuuKDJ+ U44gjscknK4hhJaCkYRsWjmBtLqXlJAG2wipNe18OZJu1BBq1E8xafl4s6Jq2mUZGftU1y7CCxnp FVUDWJXx4C66BKBnErbuoaYNtoRTu6EZBsCbMn7W+5qOAR6WvxNOby9jHWC9hAf3n304CdiAByXs 3Nh9roLDkyb/sWV712vYwaLSAn8CPMHIAAzOPDKP2COAFm4Y4ODVWc6xG7KXsN7UeUJjjimx2uwd gCgNhr0i8C/xyCD5CiCKAMY3Bf5oDzx//w/fimscdcAZU2jv9sedx6+nYPPFIoWI/GK6QZ+EFGOR ErAjCnV3vPZ7XqlTIMbOLY7fLcvvmT7rXNWaGDexIY44N12TG2PDp7vqyl57dnCeuWwyNpnEURxk fTbDYeBnKRn4oejPYI4sH6WviBumEZ/GxX4X/x6EcURFZ7E071bjQGAxpcOAEOJuTiroDEea5Szv rVWLYfl7ZiQwSUToxrkux7OLixAWGz22+HIyWTRYcVfomOwvzusfjtVIGgLHf3MAAAAASUVORK5C YII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3.50 (Mac OS X 10.6.7) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4yHSuDe37JCTqlEJ6lCQi0C5E4M= 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:139129 Archived-At: On 2011-05-04 17:39 +0800, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > 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? You can always get the snapshot from cgit, for example, http://repo.or.cz/w/emacs.git/snapshot/234c7895577fa0acac1366fe01c1f0b59d6191d5.tar.gz Leo