[PROPOSAL] Ports using SCM repositories as source instead of distfiles

[आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla]

In <AEAC14F0-5F2D-462B-94A9-0F859F87E30A at gmail.com>, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
>
>> It's not like your proposal is bad, ports instantaneously tracking
>> upstream changes and not needing maintainers would really be cool,
>> but unfortunately that's practically impossible.
>
> Some software projects are switching over to this kind of a model, like 
> glibc.

What kind of model ? You mean using repositories instead of release tarballs, 
hmm..?

-- 
Ashish Shukla
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