[OTR-dev] Will libotr4 be thread safe?

Wed May 2 14:07:08 EDT 2012

Like the previous people mentioned, the tarballs generated from the automatic tag downloads are annoying to work with.  They have strange filenames and unpack to strange directory names.

.hc

On May 2, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Chris Ballinger wrote:

> 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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