On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:49, Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> wrote:
As somebody who manages the zoneinfo data for the FreeBSD project, yes packaged data releases are much easier to track than checking the git repo manually, then not knowing which version of the imported data is currently used on the system and how it related to the git "revision" numbers.
Absolutely. For end-users the tarballs have to continue to exist and be released. As for git revision numbers I label every commit with a tag. For the tzcode/tzdata commits I use the tarball name; for the mod.sources/comp.sources.unix releases I use the id assigned by the newsgroup (except for the first(?) which didn't have one). Kevin -- Kevin Lyda Dublin, Ireland US Citizen overseas? We can vote. Register now: http://www.votefromabroad.org/