From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: Add utfcpp. Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 23:31:23 -0400 Message-ID: <20160509033123.GA25977@jasmine> References: <1462646181.1130095.601018617.5F6ADC8F@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20160507221923.GA16050@jasmine> <1462673439.1215291.601202577.5D6E31AB@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87h9e9ge6o.fsf@gmail.com> <1462718608.1361705.601472801.75471A15@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46965) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1azbvE-0002gJ-PI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 May 2016 23:31:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1azbvA-0007gd-B5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 May 2016 23:31:51 -0400 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:46822) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1azbv7-0007g6-RA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 May 2016 23:31:48 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1462718608.1361705.601472801.75471A15@webmail.messagingengine.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Alex Griffin Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 09:43:28AM -0500, Alex Griffin wrote: > On Sun, May 8, 2016, at 03:13 AM, Alex Kost wrote: > > I don't know whether we have an idiomatic way to convert "2.3.4" into > > "2_3_4", but I would just use a tarball from github: > > The project was just migrated to GitHub and hasn't had a new release > since then, so I'm using the sourceforge zip file because that's what > other projects have downloaded and used. Also I try to avoid the > automatically-generated GitHub archives because they're prone to change > hashes (although I see I forgot about that in the ledger package.) I haven't noticed a GitHub tarball change its content unexpectedly. However, I have noticed that for projects who distribute tarballs from both GitHub and another site, the tarballs are often different. The project distributes the result of something like `make dist` on the other site, while GitHub automatically generates a snapshot of the tagged commit. So, if utfcpp's GitHub and SourceForge tarballs are different, that could be the reason, and also a reason to use the SourceForge distribution.