Fetching from version control

[Joshua Root]

On 2011-10-24 22:23 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Oct 22, 2011, at 10:48, Joshua Root wrote:
> 
>> Anyway, if we had this functionality, it wouldn't be inconceivable to
>> extend it to be able to take a VCS URL, export a tarball onto the
>> distfiles server, and show the checksums. That would really take away
>> any excuse of it being inconvenient to manually generate and host a
>> tarball for each release.
> 
> That sounds like a good idea, and not too difficult. I could probably whip up a script to do that. But would our servers at Mac OS Forge be able to run it? They can't fetch from anything other than http and https URLs, and some repositories are not available via those protocols.

Good point; I guess something that runs locally would be better for
generating and checksumming the tarball.

- Josh