On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Tim Parenti wrote:
On 20 September 2016 at 13:01, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
Unfortunately ICANN is backlogged and so the 2016g tarballs have not yet been published on the iana.org website.
I'd imagine we'll always be somewhat dependent on them as long as they host the official "blessed" tarballs, but if there's any way we can reduce/minimize the necessary work we need from them to issue a release, we should try to do so. Even a weeklong backlog, as we've seen here so far, will start to become aggravating for users.
GitHub creates a tarball for every tag. See https://github.com/eggert/tz/releases That said, I'd feel a lot better about using this if it wasn't referred to on the TZ page at ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tz-link.html as "an unofficial development repository". In fact, it'd be nice in general if this project was more like every other project in having an _official_ public repo and a website that wasn't just an HTML page served via FTP. Cheers, -dave /*============================================================ http://VegGuide.org http://blog.urth.org Your guide to all that's veg House Absolute(ly Pointless) ============================================================*/