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Implement new fetchers for package-build.el #1568

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wasamasa opened this issue Mar 9, 2014 · 1 comment
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Implement new fetchers for package-build.el #1568

wasamasa opened this issue Mar 9, 2014 · 1 comment

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@wasamasa
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wasamasa commented Mar 9, 2014

package-build.el supports a good range of useful fetchers, but if I see correctly not downloading a single file, multiple files (or a directory) or archives yet. Is there a reason why not?

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purcell commented Mar 9, 2014

Yes, there's a reason: it's not possible to reliably assign versions to files downloaded from arbitrary locations. When we download source files, we need to be able to (reproducibly) figure out when they last changed, so this limits us to upstream locations which provide us with history metadata.

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