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From: "Paul Querna" <chip@force-elite.com>
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Subject: Re: Creating HTTPD Tarballs
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 18:45:25 -0700
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:15:35 -0800, Roy T. Fielding wrote
> > -1.  I'm still of the mind that _every_ release should be recreatable.
> > Anything we put out there is going to be at least perceived as
> > official,
> > and we should take that into account.
> 
> Every release is tagged.  A tarball is not a release.  Nothing is a
> release until AFTER the associated tarball has three +1 votes, at which
> point it becomes a release and should be tagged as such.

Why not name the releases/tarballs from a Date?

Then they are re-creatable from CVS. Just do a checkout for that date/time.

The WINE project sort of does this.

-chip