Re: [TCLCORE] Tk CI issue, tk fossil git export failure ...

[Phillip B. <phi...@um...>]

Is there an easy way to reproduce this without all of the work that you
have done Andreas?  Perhaps you could create a tarball with the current
state of your efforts and some run scripts that isolate the crash.

Phil

On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 11:42 AM Andreas Kupries <and...@gm...>
wrote:

>
> > Why does this have to be so complicated? Why not just use a fossil
> tarball
> > url <https://fossil-scm.org/draft/help/www/tarball> to download the
> > checkins which are being tested, unpack each tarball, build it, and run
> the
> > tests.  (Actually, I would have a separate workflow for each tarball.)
> >
> > In my experience the tarball url is very fast.  It is hugely simpler and
> > faster than cloning a big fossil repository.
>
> The repo mirroring stuff actually precedes the CI work.
> Its initial and main purpose is to maintain a backup of Tk on github.
>
> The CI was then added to that git mirror later, making it trivial to
> get the sources it needed.
>
> > - Marc
>
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