Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] checkout sources instead of download or host a tar.gz file.

[Timothy Gu]

Hi,

You can request a GitHub mirror through opening an issue or pull request at mirror/mirror, like Tony did here (https://github.com/mirror/mirror/issues/4) and I did here (https://github.com/mirror/mirror/pull/6).

Timothy

On Jul 24, 2014 5:23 AM, "Rashad M" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Hello Nagaev,
>
> I have these two repositories using svn
>
> 1. http://svn.openscenegraph.org/osg/OpenThreads/branches/OpenThreads-3.2/
> 2. http://svn.osgeo.org/ossim/branches/v1.8.18/ossim/
>
> I dont know get archives from it
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Nagaev Boris <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> > 1. For some libraries I am not able to get a source code as tar or zip. The
>> > only way is to download form repository and make them manually. Here MXE
>> > download archives and what i did was put it on localhost and fake a
>> > download. (not a clear way). I could also build them without using mxe make
>> > system. But I want them inside MXE and create .mk files.
>> >
>> > 2. How to deal with libraries that doesn't provide a archive or I want to
>> > switch to a development version. For example. I need OSSIM,ITK latest trunk
>> > version which can be checkout. And i can also make a tar or zip. But how
>> > will I set mxe to use this zip file instead of downloading?
>>
>> Most repositories provide a way to download .zip or .tar.gz for any
>> desired commit.
>>
>> Example:
>> MXE source, commit a8d49c6a34efef40bb9c27db896efb7f2de382a8
>> https://github.com/mxe/mxe/archive/a8d49c6a34efef40bb9c27db896efb7f2de382a8.zip
>>
>>
>> -
>> Best regards,
>> Boris Nagaev
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> --
> Regards,
>    Rashad