Nightly source tarballs

[matthiasr]

SVN checkout is slow, and even more so on Haiku (not sure whether due to disk or network performance issues).

Providing a recent source tarball as a starting point for "svn update" would be very helpful.

Note that this had been fixed once (#20), but the link there no longer works and there is no indication of any alternative on the site.

[umccullough]

As far as I can tell, it would have to be more than just source in the tarball - it would also need to contain the hidden .svn directories which are somewhat configuration-dependent.

For example, newer svn clients create these directories in a way that is not compatible with older clients.

I guess someone would have to create an anonymous checkout on a Haiku box and zip it up.

Also, the tarballs referenced in #20 and provided on berlios were not svn update-able.

The URL is wrong there, it should have been ftp: ​ftp://download.berlios.de/pub/haiku/snapshots/

[umccullough]

I should also mention that the hidden .svn directories contain another full duplicate of the code that was checked out, so a zip containing all the sources in a way that is svn update-able would be twice the size of just downloading the code using svn checkout (which does also compress the data as it's sent)

[mmadia]

Closing this as invalid, as no one has expressed interest in close to a full year.