[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/2] zbar: new package

Vicente Olivert Riera Vincent.Riera at imgtec.com
Thu Oct 29 10:21:29 UTC 2015


Dear Viacheslav Volkov,

sorry, one more comment on this.

On 10/29/2015 06:37 AM, Viacheslav Volkov wrote:
> +ZBAR_VERSION = 854a5d97059e395807091ac4d80c53f7968abb8f
> +ZBAR_SITE = $(call github,ZBar,Zbar,$(ZBAR_VERSION))

There are released tarballs that can be downloaded from the official
ZBar website. Why don't you use them instead of GitHub? We normally
prefer released tarballs unless there is a good reason to not do it.

In case there is such a good reason to not use the released tarball, why
do you use the GitHub mirror? It looks like the official ZBar repository
is the Mercurial one:

http://sourceforge.net/p/zbar/code/ci/default/tree/

I don't know the opinion of other developers, but I would prefer to use
the official repository instead of a mirror when possible. So, my order
of preference would be:

1st - released tarballs
2nd - official repository
3rd - mirror

Regards,

Vincent.


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