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Subject: Retire distributions repo in favor of something more suitable
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

Hi all,

the distributions repo[1] is huge (current ~ 26GiB), and it will grow
further over time; that causes issues when trying to check it out[2],
and frankly, I don't see why were having the tarballs in a VCS at all.

Wouldn't it be more suitable to make the tarballs available somewhere
else?  Since we're using Github anyway, an appropriate place could be
the tags, where it is already possible to add attachments.

From what I can tell, that would require some modifications to web-php
and web-qa, so that the proper download links would be available there,
but otherwise shouldn't be a big issue.

Thoughts?

Christoph

[1] <https://github.com/php/web-php-distributions>
[2]
<https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/78298f759b19a58b12ea20dde4f6be5b15a96ba2#commitcomment-50062830>