[maemo-developers] Autobuilder: building svn tags from garage

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 16:25, Ed Bartosh<bartosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/26 Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org>:
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 16:17, Ed Bartosh<bartosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Build-Depends is OK. scp is hackish.
>>
>> Why is scp hackish? I use it in preference to dput all the time. What
>> value does dput give for the extras autobuilder?
>
> dput is a standard tool for uploading packages to builders in Debian.
> scp is a tool for copying files over ssh connection.
> Don't you feel the difference?

If tool A uses tool B under the covers, and is effectively no more
than a wrapper around it, with its own config files to obfuscate
things which add no value at all *for a particular use case*; then no,
I don't see a difference.

Maemo isn't Debian, despite being built on it, and the auto-builder
use cases are different to those in Debian; why cling to a tool which
is designed for one use when using scp (which is all dput is using
here) could solve some real world problems?

Cheers,

Andrew

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Maemo Community Council chair