Tcl Library Source Code

The file now served by GH as tcllib_1_17:

https://codeload.github.com/tcltk/tcllib/tar.gz/tcllib_1_17?dummy=/tcltk-tcllib-1.17-tcllib_1_17_GH0.tar.gz

is much smaller than before (7686336 vs. 8284201) and lacks several files such as, for example:

. modules/pt/pt_util.tcl
. modules/string/token.tcl
. modules/pt/pt_cparam_config_tea.tcl

Please, advise.

used by the testsuite.

Can you confirm that the mirror is now delivering the proper files ?
Just checked the 1.17 tag and it looks good to me. No differences.

> those where 'is on github' is a check-mark a project has to
> tick to be considered.

The fad-chasing will be the end of you... Are you going to mirror on Facebook and Instagram next? (I'll stop now, I promise!)

I believe that we should be ok now for Tcllib.

After quite a few attempts at reproducing the problem I finally realized/determined that the tcllib.fossil file on core needed to be rebuild. Apparently some fossil schema change influenced the git exporter causing this drop of files and dirs.

I will talk with drh about that to get more details, and then go and refresh all the mirrored repositories, i.e. tklib, tcl, tk, etc. And my personal repos too, of course.

> Why do you even bother mirroring at GitHub?

More exposure to a larger group of people, and to those where 'is on github' is a check-mark a project has to tick to be considered.

Oh, great! Next time we'll use that. Why do you even bother mirroring at GitHub?

Static tarballs are available on SF, in the tcllib files sections. For all releases, as part of the release.

Link is in the release technote.

Maybe, the ultimate solution is to go "back" to hosting the actual release tarballs statically -- rather than rely on GH to automatically (re)generate them upon request?

I suspect a bug in the git export functionality of fossil.

Still gearing myself up to confirm this. I.e. make a shell script doing just the fossil and git commands "fx" runs, as a separate testable thing I can then use for bisection on fossil.