[PATCH] D70460: export.sh: Fetch sources from GitHub instead of SVN

Thu Nov 21 00:36:13 PST 2019

sylvestre.ledru added inline comments.

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Comment at: llvm/utils/release/export.sh:53
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+    for proj in $projects; do
+        echo "Creating tarball for $proj ..."
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tstellar wrote:
> hans wrote:
> > When I was thinking about this, I figured maybe we should just ship llvm-project.tar.xz and test-suite.tar.xz, rather than split up into the old project structure?
> > 
> > It seems odd in a way to release in a format that doesn't match the code layout used by developers. Do you think the llvm-projects.tar.xz tarball would be prohibitively large? Or that the change is too large for users of the release?
> If we distributed a single tarball, that would be easy, because GitHub creates one for us and adds it to the list of release assets.  The gz compressed file generated by GitHub is 108M. 
> 
> However, as a distro packager, I prefer having the separate tarballs because that's what we use for building packages on Fedora and RHEL.
> 
> @mgorny, @sylvestre.ledru  Do you have any thoughts about this?
For Debian & Ubuntu, I moved to a single tarball containing it all. Splitting tarballs doesn't bring much values compare to the maintenance cost.

BTW, using xz, the tarball is only 72M for 9.0.0

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