tarball vs. download URL

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On Apr 7, 2009, at 18:38 , Sidnei da Silva wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Jens Vagelpohl <jens at dataflake.org>  
> wrote:
>> Personally, I haven't had the need to search for a service that  
>> offers
>> something like SF, including version control and bug tracking. I
>> either use my own systems, or those used by the Zope developer
>> community.
>>
>> One candidate you could look at, if you have a minute, is Launchpad.
>> They have all kinds of nice services, but there's one big drawback:
>> They force you onto their own VCS (bzr). I have not looked at any
>> other sites like Google Code.
>
> That's not true. You are not required to use bzr, you can easily host
> your code somewhere. When setting up a project you have the option to
> specify a CVS or Subversion repo URL. Regular code imports from CVS
> and SVN are supported too, and many Zope projects are being mirrored
> in Launchpad's Code Hosting. Soon git  will be supported for code
> mirroring too.

Code mirroring != code repository. I was listing examples which offer  
both code hosting and additional services. Separating it up doesn't  
seem desirable unless there's no other solution.

jens



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