Is there an api available to just fetch the sources for a particular package?

[smac89]

Is it possible to fetch the sources of a particular version of a package, without building it? For example, this package has a number of versions listed. Is there anything builtin that allows us to say, that we just want to grab the source of a particular version?

[waruqi]

no way now, you need to install it first. but you can use set_base to override on_install/on_test. it will only download sources.

package("zlibsrc")
    set_base("zlib")
    on_install(function() end)
    on_test(function() end)

[smac89]

Thanks a lot. I put this in a local repo to use it. Works pretty well

[smac89]

One more question: Is there a way to cause the source always be cached?

[waruqi]

Source tar balls are cached by default and cleaned once a month.

The source directories of release package are cleaned up and the debug packages are retained.