DIP11: Automatic downloading of libraries

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 14.06.2011 17:31, schrieb Adam D. Ruppe:
> Daniel Gibson:
>> Is this possible with plain webspace, i.e. when you don't control
>> the server?
> 
> If you have your own domain name, you can certainly set this up.
> 
> But if your host is fully managed, probably not. A fix is to set
> up a redirection server people can share. This is kinda like a
> central repository, but you wouldn't have to upload your files
> directly. You might just put up a url (and other metadata?) to point
> people to the final location.
> 
> However, I'd prefer to have simple files. Downloading from git
> is imo a mistake - those files are probably in development...
> meaning they are mutable. If the files are mutable, it includes a
> lot of pain for versioning and caching.

There could be stable branches in the git repositories for exactly this
purpose.
Furthermore it's be nice as an additional feature - some people may
always want to use the latest bleeding edge version from git/svn/whatever.