Re: Source tarballs on lilypond.org

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

On Fri, 2023-09-01 at 14:31 +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Per the release procedure
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/contributor/release-checklist ,
> GitLab releases for LilyPond contain both binaries + doc tarballs and source
> tarballs generate by "make dist", while the old download site
> lilypond.org/download, which used to host all of these, now only has source 
> tarballs.
> 
> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6648 is the result of someone
> being confused by not finding doc tarballs next to source tarballs on
> lilypond.org/download, as it was in the past.
> 
> I couldn't find the reason for this in the archives. What's the purpose of
> serving the source tarballs from two different places?

IIRC it was alluded to when I proposed uploading only the binaries (and
the documentation) to GitLab: the source archive is used to build for
various distributions (Linux, Homebrew, MacPorts). They all had (and
still have) the "old" link in their setups, so it was (and still is)
easier to keep uploading them there. Plus they are relatively small and
don't require that much resources, so I think the benefit of providing
the sources from the official website outweighs the extra step.

As for the issue, I consider that somewhat of an outlier: Most users
will follow the links on the website, and everything will work for
them. A small fraction tries to find the binaries where they used to be
(and I'm surprised there are still questions about the installer
scripts...), but I find it highly unlikely that those people check the
directory with the sources, so not uploading them doesn't really change
anything for those users, does it?

Jonas

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