Re: Checkout the sources for the release branch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 22:38:36 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> >> How would that be relevant for us?  We need to pretest the things _we_
> >> will put on our servers for the release.  That is the source tarball,
> >> and binaries for Windows.
> >
> > The Windows binaries are no more produced by ``us'' than the various
> > GNU/Linux binaries.
> 
> I wrote "put on our servers", not "produced by us".  If you don't feel
> like addressing my point, there is little gained by addressing a
> different one.

The emphasis on _we_ was yours.  Don't blame me if I pay attention to
your emphasis.

> > The GNU Project distributes only sources, AFAIK.  The fact that GNU
> > lends disk space on its FTP servers for volunteers to upload Windows
> > binaries does not change anything in principle.
> 
> It will still be us that get the heat.

As are things with other GNU/Linux distributions, btw.