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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 10:00:24 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Retire distributions repo in favor of something more
 suitable
From: ben@benramsey.com (Ben Ramsey)

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> On Apr 27, 2021, at 09:41, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> 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?


Co-signed. I tried downloading it yesterday to add my key to the
keyring, but I canceled when I realized that my laptop might run out of
space. ;-)

Cheers,
Ben

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