[OTR-dev] Will libotr4 be thread safe?

[Chris Ballinger]

I agree with releasing versioned tarballs on github. Fortunately this is
pretty easy by either tagging the releases with git and/or by uploading
.tar.gz files to the project.

Any news on the new version yet?

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:

>
> Paul Wouters <paul at cypherpunks.ca> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 1 May 2012, Chris Ballinger wrote:
> >
> >> p.s. have you guys considered moving the project to github?
> >
> > If one does that, PLEASE ensure you publish tar balls. github
> > as a really awful upstream provider for linux distribution packages.
>
> Seconded (from the pkgsrc viewpoint).  The real issue seems to be that
> people working on projects don't realize that the broader audience
> runs code that's been packaged from actual releases, not the latest from
> git -- even though almost all useful contributions come from those who
> build from git.  This has always been an issue, but it seems worse with
> git culture.
>
>
>
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