[Dune-devel] Dune 2.11: Release tags created

[Markus Blatt]

Am Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 08:13:46PM +0100 schrieb Oliver Sander:
>Hi Christoph,
>
>>The tar balls are the default way to create packages for Linux 
>>distributions and similar systems like brew. Without official 
>>tarballs,
>
>is this so?  My understanding is that at least Debian is moving more 
>and more towards using git tags directly.
>
>@markus, is that correct?
>

even on Debian we still use tarballs (at least internally).
Hence these will be created even if the project does not have those.
In this case we create them from tags.

>>Not sure if this is enough of an argument to have the extra work. 
>>For
>
>No worries, it's very little extra work, and in fact I already do have 
>the tarballs locally. I was just wondering whether it's time to 
>modernize our release procedure a bit.
>

For me having official ones for download would make life a bit easier.
Otherwise I might need to change a few things.

Best,

Markus


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