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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add soil.
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David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:

[...]

>>> +              ;; No versioned archive available.
>>> +              (uri "http://www.lonesock.net/files/soil.zip")
>>
>> Normally, this would not work: As soon as a new version comes out, we wo=
uld
>> lose the old one, except for a copy on hydra that might be garbage colle=
cted.
>> So I think it would be preferable to use an svn checkout.
>>
>> In this particular case, since there are no new releases, the argument
>> becomes moot...
>
> Yeah, dunno what to do here.  I could use the SVN checkout, but that
> really sucks.

Either way is fine.  If the project is inactive, soil.zip won=E2=80=99t get
updated anyway I guess.

Ludo=E2=80=99.