On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Josh Marshall wrote: > Subject: Moved gettext to use git to better conform to better > bootstrapping, better integration with Software Heritage, and what looks > like emerging best practices for package sources. Based on the previous discussion of this topic [0], I don't think there was a consensus about whether or not using tarballs or Git sources was better. [0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-05/msg00224.html > On Sun, May 17, 2020, 15:56 Marius Bakke wrote: > > joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com writes: > AIUI the lack of tarball integration in Software Heritage is temporary, > > i.e. it will eventually be sorted, and of course back-dated. So I don't > > think we need to move everything to git while we wait for that. > > When I looked into it, there appears to have been no progress in a year and > a half. Software Heritage is a cool project, but I don't see it as a reason to start changing our packages yet. For one thing, it hasn't demonstrated long-term stability in the way that the GNU tarball servers have. And the apparent lack of progress on this feature (tarball hosting) does not make me more confident. There's no reason to avoid SWH, but also no reason to move away from tarballs where we are already using them. I don't think there is any danger of losing the gettext source code the way that there is for minor GitHub projects and scientific computing packages.