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From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 27110@debbugs.gnu.org, Alex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com>
Subject: bug#27110: [PATCH] gnu: asciinema: Update to 1.4.0.
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 03:48:36 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d20aff7.ADsAAhu0CjwAAAAAAAAAAAPFk78AAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZK0zP@mailjet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170528183753.GB15883@jasmine>


>> Could you switch to upstream's github release tarball instead?
>> https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/archive/v1.4.0.tar.gz
>>
>> LGTM, otherwise!
>
> Is there a reason to prefer one over the other?
>
> I ask because, typically, these unammed GitHub tarballs are not actual
> releases prepared by the maintainers, but just a snapshot of the Git
> repo, created automatically by GitHub for each tag. PyPi tends to
> contain the "real" release in cases like this.

I thought it is better to depend directly on the upstream source
(github, in this case) than on an intermediary (pypi) who has also
packaged the software. If we use pypi, Guix becomes some kind of second
order package repository that depends on pypi, the primary package
repository. WDYT?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-28 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-28  1:16 bug#27110: [PATCH] gnu: asciinema: Update to 1.4.0 Alex Griffin
2017-05-28 17:00 ` Arun Isaac
2017-05-28 18:37   ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-28 22:18     ` Arun Isaac [this message]
     [not found]     ` <2dff1be8.ADsAAhu0Cj4AAAAAAAAAAAO8ccgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZK0zP@mailjet.com>
2017-05-28 22:33       ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-28 23:01         ` Marius Bakke
2017-05-29  5:46           ` Arun Isaac
2017-05-29 17:26             ` Arun Isaac
2017-05-29 19:23           ` Arun Isaac
     [not found]           ` <a9d8e951.AEAAKtByx2QAAAAAAAAAAAO8ccgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZLHUl@mailjet.com>
2017-05-29 20:42             ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-30  8:20               ` Arun Isaac
     [not found]               ` <be173c52.AEMAK1ybgp8AAAAAAAAAAAPFd4cAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZLStT@mailjet.com>
2017-05-30 15:10                 ` Marius Bakke
2017-05-30 16:06                   ` Arun Isaac

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