On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:01:40 +0100 Stefan Husmann <stefan-husmann@t-online.de> wrote:
Hello,
I think more important than the form the sources are hosted (git or tarball) is if the program is to be considered stable. To me a program is stable if new versions do only deliver bug fixes and minor improvements. I think this is the case here. So I would prefer to use the PKGBUILD in AUR over a to-be-written PKGBUILD for some tarball version, also because the former is the one which has 427 votes.
Development is quite fast-paced, with a new release every few weeks, often bringing big changes. api, config syntax etc are definitely not stable yet. It makes maintaining packages a bit more work, but IMHO it doesn't change anything to the pro's and cons of official binary packages vs git packages in AUR, so I think a binary package is useful. But Bîru has told me he wants to maintain packages in community, so my problem is solved. Dieter