ludovic.cour...@inria.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > The Software Heritage archive is now accessible: > > https://www.softwareheritage.org/2018/06/07/opening-the-door/ > > [...] > > Anyway, I find this pretty exciting, and I think we’ll be able to use it > as a fallback in ‘git-fetch’ without much work, since SWH supports Git > sha1 object ids.
Cool! > It’s unclear whether we’ll be able to use it for plain old tarballs > since in general SWH is about storing commits or similar objects. They > injected ftp.gnu.org though, which is why the GCC tarball above is > available, but I think it’s more of an exception. I would have thought they'd archive releases, such as those distributed as tarballs. Either way, it's nice to have another archive around! -- Chris
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