Re: Python recompile

On 2025-03-07, Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:

scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

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It was from here:
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  https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc
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The ZIP file is the one you get on the '<> Code' pulldown menu. You get
that on every project, whether it targets Windows or not.

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You're downloading the entire flippin' GIT repository.   Every version of
gcc.  You surely don't want that.

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No, he downloaded a zip of the current version.  He'd get the entire
repo only if he did a "git clone".
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(Downloading a zip of the current version is a GitHub feature, not a git
feature.)

Sort of.

Creating archive snapshots is a feature of git: "git archive".

Github almost certainly uses this to spin up the downloadable
archives on the fly, as do cgit and gitweb.

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