Re: Software Heritage archive is now live!

[Chris Marusich]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> The Software Heritage archive is now accessible:
>
>   https://www.softwareheritage.org/2018/06/07/opening-the-door/
>
>  [...]
>
> Anyway, I find this pretty exciting, and I think we’ll be able to use it
> as a fallback in ‘git-fetch’ without much work, since SWH supports Git
> sha1 object ids.

Cool!

> It’s unclear whether we’ll be able to use it for plain old tarballs
> since in general SWH is about storing commits or similar objects.  They
> injected ftp.gnu.org though, which is why the GCC tarball above is
> available, but I think it’s more of an exception.

I would have thought they'd archive releases, such as those distributed
as tarballs.  Either way, it's nice to have another archive around!

-- 
Chris

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