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#40Provide tarballs of repos

Dag Odenhall

Probably using darcs dist, at least for the repo head, possibly also for each tag, maybe even arbitrary patches. But mainly for head!

• ghThu Oct 23 14:45:32 UTC 2014

  In the development version of darcs we now have darcs dist --zip which is faster and generates a .zip archive of the repository. Using this we could have a "Download ZIP" button like on github (see on the right side of https://github.com/jgm/zip-archive for instance).

• maerwaldSat Nov 28 03:06:17 UTC 2015

  Isn't this already implemented now?

• Simon MichaelSun Nov 29 15:58:52 UTC 2015
  • status set to closed

  Seems so! Thanks.

• Andreas WagnerSun Nov 29 16:23:06 UTC 2015

  @maerwald, tar.xz or tar.gz downloads would be interesting for distro packaging because unzip is usually a dependency that needs to be installed. Github offers both zips tarballs.

  More importantly it looks like the zip files are only for the latest repo state not for TAGs or a subset of patches.

  Support for Zipping subsets of patches is already exposed by darcs: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs-2.10.2/docs/Darcs-UI-Options-Flags.html#t:DarcsFlag

  I could add a chevron to the right-hand side of the "download .zip" button to turn it into an (optional) dropdown menu. But the problem is the current URI scheme of:

  http://<hostname>/<user>/<repo>/patch/<hash>

  does not reflect that there are many other ways to select patches or sets of patches.

• maerwaldSun Nov 29 22:46:45 UTC 2015
  • status set to open

  I have implemented tar.xz and tar.gz

  http://hub.darcs.net/maerwald/darcsden-patches/patch/316419f5195ca79770264d8aca11a5a074262a8b

  This will need: - testing on windows - testing in general (are the tarballs ok?)

• Simon MichaelSun Nov 29 22:54:25 UTC 2015

  Thanks!

  At present, though, I am quite reluctant to install this on darcs hub. It quadruples the load-generating routes for bots to hit, and for no real benefit that I can see. Who actually needs this ?

• maerwaldSun Nov 29 22:56:10 UTC 2015

  As explained, this is useful for distribution packaging, because zip imposes an additional dependency that might not be installed on bootstrapped linux systems.

• Simon MichaelSun Nov 29 22:58:48 UTC 2015

  I must still question: Do we have any actual distro packagers requesting this ? Do they actually want to use darcs hub for it rather than their own scripts ? Do we need to provide all of zip, tar, tar.gz, tar.xz ? What does github provide, and how do they do it without being DDOSed ?

• maerwaldSun Nov 29 23:01:03 UTC 2015

  Github provides .zip and .tar.gz afais. I don't know how they deal with DDOS and I don't see why this would considerably increase the chance. If you want to DDOS darc hub, I think you can already do that, no? But I don't know much about that.

• maerwaldSun Nov 29 23:03:21 UTC 2015
  • added tag in-progress
  • added tag discussion
• maerwaldMon Nov 30 17:50:56 UTC 2015

  workin on that here: http://hub.darcs.net/maerwald/darcsden-dist

• maerwaldTue Dec 1 07:37:16 UTC 2015
  • added tag experimental