Re: [Jack-Devel] JACK releases, jackaudio.org download

On Sun, March 20, 2016 14:10, Harry van Haaren wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Neil C Smith <
> [hidden]> wrote:
>> On 20 March 2016 at 00:54,  <[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>> there was this mesage on github announcing simplified handling of
>>> large files in repos, "large file supprt". I wondered if this could
>>> replace
> the
>>> dropbox links of the binaries for future releases.
>
> -1 from me to "Large files in repo", because it involves downloading
> *all* of them on cloning a repo (unless eg --depth=1 is given, which
> provides no history)
>
> Just source code and essential extras in a repo please :)
>
>
>
>> Why choose either over GitHub's support for release binaries?
>>
>
> I never knew GitHub supported this - after a quick google:
> https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases/
>
>
> Thanks, learn something new every day.
>
>

Harry, that's not an issue, it could be in a separate repo just for
releases, to not disturb the source repo. downloading binaries from a
dropbox account is somehow less confident. it could disappear anytime
while with github it's possible to clone and have a history etc.

Greetings

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