Re: selfupdate-git

Daniel Johnson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.core
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On Aug 1, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:

> One of the main things we need, regardless of the solution we use, is
> the ability to provide .info and .patch files over http or https so that
> people who are behind firewalls can selfupdate.
> 
> Either git or svn would work in such a case, as long as the hosting
> provider supports http(s) access.
> 
> svn also has the virtue that Xcode contains a version on 10.5 and later,
> whereas git doesn't show up in Xcode until 10.7.

Yes, these are all true. As far as hosting, both github and sourceforge support svn over https, but only github does git over https. Sourceforge only supports git over the old git:// protocol, which is unfortunate. Other options are googlecode which supports both svn and git, and bitbucket which does git (and mercurial).

Also note that while 10.5 does have svn, it's the severely outdated 1.4 version which could have issues with modern svn repos and be really slow. 10.5 users would really need to use fink's svn in this case. 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8 all have svn 1.6.x which is fine.

Daniel


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