[viewvc-users] When and why did "allow_tar" get pulled out?

Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.viewcvs.user
Message-ID <ce6304781001290543u434bccd8u35a59f830886904b__6195.39077529243$1264774857$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com>
I used to use "allow_tar" in viewvc-1.0.9 to allow tarball
downloading, to avoid needing to install Subversion clients to access
test tarballs. This was apparently yanked out at 1.1.0, although the
help pages still reflect the presence of the "Download tarball"
option.

The consistent and confusing labeling of "allow_tar" versus its
description as "Download tarball" in the documentation was a minor
issue. But yanking out the utility without updating the documentation
is... an unpleasant surprise. Why was it pulled? Would it be possible
to have restored as an option?

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