[Kde-extra-gear] Git and the future of scripts to create extragear tarballs

[José Manuel Santamaría Lema]

Hi,

I'm working on an extragear project and until now, with svn, I have been using 
the 'create_tarball.rb' script[1] to generate my tarballs. If I'm right, this 
script has various limitations; it doesn't support creating tarbarlls from 
branches (you're forced to package everything from trunk) and it doesn't support 
git.

Since some day we will move to git and also I guess I'll do a branch my project 
some day, I'm thinking how I will create tarballs.

IIRC I asked some time ago in IRC to Konversation guys how they where generating 
tarballs and someone pointed me this:
https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~apachelogger/+junk/release-script-refactor

I'm considering to start using that script (it seems better than 
create_tarball.rb) but I'm at the moment open to other options like improving 
create_tarball.rb to satisfy my needs.

But I will try to not waste my time before doing anything so my question is: 
will be create_tarball.rb dropped in favor of Harald's script? Will they co-
exist in the future? I'm asking because having such script in a bzr repo in 
launchpad seems a bit odd to be official for KDE.

[1] 
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdesdk/scripts/createtarball/create_tarball.rb?view=log