For a release, devs need to manually create source-code tarballs for sc3-plugins

[kristho91]

I'm getting following error when trying to build from the release tarball:

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:6 (message):
nova-simd submodule is missing: please run `git submodule init && git
submodule update' from the toplevel of your git working tree

This shouldn't be necessary, right? Or am I using the wrong tarball? (I am using this one: https://github.com/supercollider/sc3-plugins/archive/Version-3.8.0.tar.gz )

[vivid-synth]

@kristho91 yes, this seems wrong. In the meantime you can

$ git pull https://github.com/supercollider/sc3-plugins
$ cd sc3-plugins
$ git submodule update --init --recursive

[danstowell]

It's Github's fault. Github creates those tar.gz files automatically and github doesn't include submodules even though it should - see this issue discussed on the main supercollider codebase. It is not the fault of the supercollider developers, and the supercollider developers have no way of removing those defective tarballs.

[kristho91]

@danstowell I know :) But could you maybe create a tarball that contains those submodules - like supercollider does on their own website?

[gusano]

@kristho91 Those tarballs (Source code (zip) and Source code (tar.gz)) are automagically created by github when creating a release and there's nothing we can do about it, as explained in the issue Dan mentioned. All other tarballs are updated manually and contain the submodules.

[LFSaw]

we should

1. file an issue for github
2. mention it in the README?

[dvzrv]

Implemented with #186