From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 18:46:49 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] libevent: use github call In-Reply-To: References: <1413129607-9134-1-git-send-email-maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com> <20141012181720.2b5dd0ee@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20141012184649.6d7ec0d7@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Maxime Hadjinlian, On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 18:30:14 +0200, Maxime Hadjinlian wrote: > > Why use the github function when a tarball is provided? > Only because we were using the github repository before, but we could > uses the tarball from the servers ? I don't know which is prefered ? My personal point of view is that if there's a tarball, then we should use it. Don't know if that opinion is shared by the community as a whole, please ask right now during the meeting :-) Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com