[racket-dev] raco pkg and github

From: Asumu Takikawa (asumu at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 1 09:57:55 EST 2013

On 2013-02-01 06:23:06 -0700, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> I had originally tried to do that, but Github wasn't providing tar
> balls for anything other than branch HEADs and tags. I'm surprised
> that it works for you and not for me. Am I just crazy or did you set
> something on your repository to make it work?

Maybe it's a new feature they added recently? I think Jens was saying on
IRC that it wasn't documented in the API.

I'm pretty sure it's not just for my repos. Here's a random example from
one of yours:
  https://github.com/jeapostrophe/opencl/tarball/664c813c679b5c6f0f93fc1de4e908f6048c3acd

Cheers,
Asumu

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