[Slackbuilds-users] mercurial repositry

[Tim Dickson]

Thanks. I'll see if the dev will upload a "release version" tar.gz source.

Tim

On 15/02/2011 05:45, crocket wrote:
> I dealt with this issue.
> I downloaded the source code from mercurial repository, removed
> unneccesary files and directories, and archived the source in tar.bz2.
> I uploaded the archived source to my google code project website.
> Googlecode provides up to gigabytes.
> This way, you can make sure people always get the same source code.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Tim Dickson<dickson.tim at googlemail.com>
> To: SlackBuilds.org Users List<slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>
> Sent: Tue, February 8, 2011 6:30:22 PM
> Subject: [Slackbuilds-users] mercurial repositry
>
> hi all, I am creating a slackbuild for a project where the source is only
> available as a mecurial repo. on googlecode.com
> It is easy enough to get (the source), but is not accessible directly by http or
>
> ftp, and is just the source itself, not a gzipped tar of the source.
>
> any suggestions?
> thanks, Tim
>
> PS. source can be got with something like..
>
>
>
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