getting current source version

[Luke Schierer]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 12:01:32PM -0400, James E. LaBarre wrote:
> Luke Schierer wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:40:42AM -0400, James E. LaBarre wrote:
> >> Having just installed Feisty on a system (which comes with Gaim
> >> 2.0.0b6), I decided to see if anyone had made a plugin/patch/fork to fix
> >> the bug for the missing protocol icons.  I see there's supposed to be a
> >> fix in v2.2.0, but nowhere on the site could I find a place to get the
> >> current version of the source code (cvs/svn/git/whatever) to try
> >> building my own package.  The only version available for download is
> >> v2.1.0, which still has the old bug.
> > 
> > We devote several pages of developer.pidgin.im to this very topic
> > (getting the source).  That being said, DO NOT DO SO.  Unless you are
> > planning on working on a patch, translation or plugin, you are a drain
> > on resources that are decidedly limited.
> 
> ????
> 
> Compiling a programme on *MY* machine is a drain on *yours*????  Where's
> the logic in that?
> 
> What I want to do is try to use Pidgin *with* the protocol icons which,
> until a pre-built version becomes available, requires building it myself.
> 

Compiling is 0 cost.  the mtn pull is what costs.  There is a similar
cost associated with svn or cvs, though the impact of that cost with
either of these solutions would be greater, because you need access to
the central server for a larger percentage of operations.  This is why
SF split off the anonymous cvs server from the "developer" cvs server,
the cost of pulls was so high as to prevent developers from reaching the
cvs server at all.

While we (thankfully) have no where near that much traffic, we also have
no where near that much hardware.  As a result, the cost of pulls is
still a noticable drain on our resources. 

luke