Re: Gtk2-Perl: tarball uploads to master.g.o

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On 19.03.2011 17:44, Olav Vitters wrote:
> I'm planning to severely restrict the shell access to master.gnome.org,
> so I want all issues resolved in a nice way. I think if we'd:
> 1. have perl-*.tar.xz on ftp.gnome.org
> 2. some way to link the bindings to GNOME versions
>
> We could update our scripts to understand above.
>
> Uploading tarballs will be allowed btw. I think to link tarball names I
> probably just define a file 'perl-$GNOME_VER.versions', with contents:
>    # module:version
>    perl-Gtk2:1.221
>
> Then our scripts could understand this... and to link perl bindings to
> GNOME versions, you could just upload this special file with
> install-module (IMPORTANT: before a GNOME release).

This sounds doable, yes.  But by now I'm not convinced anymore that 
having our tarballs on ftp.gnome.org has any advantage for us or for 
GNOME.  We already have two well-known places where we put our tarballs: 
CPAN and sourceforge.net.  I doubt many people use ftp.gnome.org to get 
our tarballs.*  So maybe all this special-casing that you'd need to 
implement is not worth the effort and we should just stop distributing 
our tarballs on ftp.gnome.org altogether?

* Do you have any download statistics to check my suspicion?