[racket-dev] raco pkg and github

From: Jens Axel Søgaard (jensaxel at soegaard.net)
Date: Fri Feb 1 10:44:56 EST 2013

2013/2/1 Asumu Takikawa <asumu at ccs.neu.edu>:
> 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.

It was about 6-7 months ago I checked, and back then I couldn't find
anything. Now I see it here:

http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/#get-archive-link

The v3 API was in beta from June, so I might have been looking
at the v2 API back then.

Anyways, great find Asumu.

/Jens Axel

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