Comment 2 for bug 673407

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 14:45 +0000, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> On 11/10/2010 03:53 AM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > It would be nice if Launchpad could automatically provide downloads of
> > revisions that have been tagged. GitHub has this feature, and it's quite
> > neat.
> Why would we restrict it to revisions that have been tagged? bzrlib can
> export any arbitrary revision to a tarball, so Loggerhead could, too.
>
> Is it because you want the tarballs to be generated once and then stored
> in the librarian so that the contents are always the same?
>
> See also Bug #325761 and Bug #515128.
Sorry, I was a bit vague. I'm not really interested in creating tarballs
for arbitrary revisions but rather in adding releases to a Launchpad
project this way. E.g. having such a tagged revision show up in
"+downloads" and having the latest release link show up on the frontpage
of the project.

Cheers,

Jelmer