[Gnu-arch-users] Re: taglines vs explicit

[Miles Bader]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
> Somewhere in the introductory docs, maybe the old home page, a remark
> is made that any tarball of an arch project would be an arch workspace
> when untarred.  So this possibility has been considered a feature at
> least as long as I've been following arch.

Sure, it's a feature that it's _possible_ (that is, that {arch} is
basically location independent), but the question is whether it's usual
practice, and whether it should be recommended.

I like arch, so as long as {arch} is not excessively large, I have no
particular objection to including it, but I suppose some people might get
snarky about it...

Hmmm, if someone gets a tar file containing an {arch}, and wants to put it
into a local archive, what do they have to do?  Is `tla set-tree-version;
tla commit' enough (or should it be `import'?  I can never remember the
difference)?

-Miles
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