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notaz / picodrive

Fast MegaDrive/MegaCD/32X emulator
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release tarballs #82

Closed orbea closed 5 years ago

orbea commented 6 years ago

I would like to switch picodrive-libretro at slackbuilds.org (Slackware packages) to picodrive which will include both the standalone emulator and the libretro core. It would be best to use the stable release tarballs. However the auto generated tarballs github provides lack the submodules and are not suitable to building the standalone version of picodrive. Would it be possible to make this easier for package maintainers?

Here are some ideas.

  1. Provide manually created release tarballs in .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and/or .tar.xz format that include the submodules.
  2. Remove the git submodules and add them back as git subtrees so github's tarballs will include them. This has many other benefits as well and I can make a PR doing this if desired.
  3. I continue generating my own tarballs of arbitrary commits as I have been doing for picodrive-libretro

Thanks!

orbea commented 5 years ago

@notaz I'll take the silence as a won't fix...only people with push access can upload tarballs to github so I can't send a PR to fix this.

notaz commented 5 years ago

I think I simply forgot this, sorry. I can do it if it still helps you.

orbea commented 5 years ago

Yes, it would be helpful. Currently I have to generate my own tarballs with the missing submodules which is not ideal as not everyone may trust the tarballs I make as much as they would from the developer of the program. :)

notaz commented 5 years ago

Done, hope that works for you.

orbea commented 5 years ago

Yes that works for me, thank you! I've sent an updated build script for 1.93 to slackbuilds.org which should be merged sometime this weekend.