Re: [E-devel] snaps

[Mike B. <mi...@ze...>]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:22:51 +0100 (CET)
Vincent Torri <vt...@un...> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:02:32 -0500 Mike Blumenkrantz <mi...@ze...>
> > said:
> >
> >> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:48:28 -0600
> >> Jeff Hoogland <jef...@gm...> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Maybe it is just because I am new around here... But why are snap shots
> >>> even really needed? Pulling down all the latest sources from SVN really
> >>> isn't all that hard.
> >>>
> >>> ~Jeff Hoogland
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Mike Blumenkrantz
> >>> <mi...@ze...>wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> We have a lot of users who would benefit from more frequent snapshots of
> >>>> e17.
> >>>> Since snapping e by itself is not much effort, how would people feel
> >>>> about doing a new snap every two weeks?  Someone would have to make
> >>>> dist-bzip2 every 2 weeks and upload somewhere, and it would probably take
> >>>> 20-30 seconds.  Hell I'd even do it myself if it would reduce the number
> >>>> of times a week I tell people to switch to latest svn from snapshots.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thoughts?
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Mike Blumenkrantz
> >>>> Zentific: NULL pointer dereferences now 50% off!
> >>>>
> >> Snapshots are what distributions create packages from.  The majority of
> >> users do not know what subversion is, nor do they know how to use it.
> >
> > tbh we need to make packages if u care about those users. that means for
> > example make our own ubuntu packages - gentoo can look after itself (and
> > well mess things up with use flags as it is want to do, so i don't much
> > care there).
> >
> > jeff - could you spread the love for your debian rules/control and other
> > pkging files you use to build your pkgs? i'd love to just have an
> > auto-build script for pretty much everything... and speaking of stuff..
> > that's another email. :)
> 
> lutin is already doing official debian packages. What duplicating effort ?
> 
> Vincent
> 
Agreed, we should focus more on providing code and snapshots.  Leave packaging
to the distros.

-- 
Mike Blumenkrantz
Zentific: NULL pointer dereferences now 50% off!