From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2004-02-22 14:11:02
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j_r...@ya... wrote: >[Sorry for the dup if there is any] > >On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:20:17 -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: > =20 > >>Jos=E9 Fonseca wrote: >> >> =20 >> >>>I've prepared a new release for mingw-utils. What exactly should be th= e >>>file release procedure? I guess it would go first to "Candidate" >>>package, and then shifted to Current at some point. Am I right? >>> >>>=20 >>> >>> =20 >>> >>If you feel it necessary for a Candidate, then yes, otherwise just make= =20 >>it a Current release. For instance, mingw-runtime and w32api I don't=20 >>create candidates for while MSYS I always do. >> =20 >> > >Ok, there should be no need for a Candidate. > >But still... I'm baffled with the file releases admin page! It seems >that "Releases" are being (ab)used for packages while "Packages" are >being used for package collections! > =20 > Yes and this was brought to the developer community for discussion=20 before implementation. >I think I did the right thing, by moving the mingw-utils-0.2 files to >"Previous : Mingw utilities", and adding new ones to "Current : Mingw >utilities", and moving away the mingw-utils-0.1 (into the hidden >mingw-utils-0.1). But somehow there still are TWO mingw utilities in >current!! > =20 > That should have been the correct procedure. You have to move the file=20 to Previous one file at a time and use the Update button for each file=20 singularly. ><rant> >I understand that SourceForge can be limitative by the pre-determined >ways to do things, but IMO to abuse some of its features (in the sense >of using these features for things they were not designed for) is >totally counter productive... ></rant> > =20 > This was done to help with the dynamicity and presentation of the=20 download.shtml page. Your new files are listed on the MinGW download=20 page based on the project Files page listed on SF. At least you=20 understood exactly what to do even though accomplishing it didn't happen.= >I need some help to remedy the [duplicate release] above. > =20 > I'll try to take a look sometime in the near future. Earnie --=20 http://www.mingw.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw https://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?user_id=3D15438 |