[Bioperl-l] branch pruning v.2

[Chris Fields]

On May 18, 2010, at 5:50 AM, Dave Messina wrote:

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> On May 18, 2010, at 12:07, Peter wrote:
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>> Or just turn off the download feature in github.
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> That might be the best solution, at least for now.
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> The download page is somewhat unfriendly anyway — the tag names are truncated, there's no way to sort, and the descriptions are, well, not so descriptive (they appear to be just the last commit message).
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> Probably better to keep 
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> 	http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Getting_BioPerl
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> as our main distribution point for downloads.
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> 
> Dave

We can turn that off for now, though it is a nice feature.  If we need a replacement link for downloads we can use the repo.or.cz mirror link, for example:

http://repo.or.cz/w/bioperl-live.git/snapshot/HEAD.tar.gz
http://repo.or.cz/w/bioperl-live.git/snapshot/HEAD.zip

chris