Re: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: Add utfcpp.

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 09:43:28AM -0500, Alex Griffin wrote:
> On Sun, May 8, 2016, at 03:13 AM, Alex Kost wrote:
> > I don't know whether we have an idiomatic way to convert "2.3.4" into
> > "2_3_4", but I would just use a tarball from github:
> 
> The project was just migrated to GitHub and hasn't had a new release
> since then, so I'm using the sourceforge zip file because that's what
> other projects have downloaded and used. Also I try to avoid the
> automatically-generated GitHub archives because they're prone to change
> hashes (although I see I forgot about that in the ledger package.)

I haven't noticed a GitHub tarball change its content unexpectedly.

However, I have noticed that for projects who distribute tarballs from
both GitHub and another site, the tarballs are often different. The
project distributes the result of something like `make dist` on the
other site, while GitHub automatically generates a snapshot of the
tagged commit.

So, if utfcpp's GitHub and SourceForge tarballs are different, that
could be the reason, and also a reason to use the SourceForge
distribution.