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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:21:16 -0800
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
>>It was from here:
>>
>>   https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc
>>
>>The ZIP file is the one you get on the '<> Code' pulldown menu. You get 
>>that on every project, whether it targets Windows or not.
>
> You're downloading the entire flippin' GIT repository.   Every version of
> gcc.  You surely don't want that.

No, he downloaded a zip of the current version.  He'd get the entire
repo only if he did a "git clone".

(Downloading a zip of the current version is a GitHub feature, not a git
feature.)

[...]

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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