<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Burton, Ross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ross.burton@intel.com" target="_blank">ross.burton@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="im">On 21 August 2013 11:24, Laszlo Papp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lpapp@kde.org" target="_blank">lpapp@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I am not saying to fix gtk-doc-stub only. I am saying fix the nastiness of using git repositories for released and supposedly stable versions. I do not see why tarball would not be enough for those to work off-hand? That should be the ideal architecture IMHO.</div>
</blockquote><div> </div></div><div>Two good reasons to allow git repositories as a source:</div><div><br></div><div>1) Many projects don't make tarball releases.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>
That does not mean bitbake cannot generate tarball out of the git repository. In fact, it is relatively simple. ;-)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>2) It's incredibly useful to be able to build from git snapshots for development/testing purposes.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>
<div>I was explicitly mentioning stable and official released variants.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>What you're asking for is the inability to use git repositories in SRC_URI, which won't happen.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>
</div><div>No, that is not what I am asking.</div><div><br></div><div>Here you can find the feature request: <a href="https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5035">https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5035</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers, L.</div></div></div></div>