On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:23:02 PM Thomas Goirand wrote: > The idea to use "git archive" was mostly from Julien Danjou. It's > very nice because that way, we can use xz compression, instead > of what upstream provides (that is, github .zip or .tar.gz, which > isn't the best). See devref 6.7.8. This not an appropriate reason to not use the upstream tarball. Scott K