Re: [E-devel] About release, snapshots and openBSD port

[Thanatermesis <tha...@gm...>]

2011/11/11 Bruno Dilly <bd...@pr...>

> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Jonathan Armani <db...@as...>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Carsten Haitzler <ra...@ra...>
> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:18:29 +0100 (CET) Vincent Torri <
> vt...@un...>
> >> said:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Hey
> >>>
> >>> I'm talking a lot with an openBSD dev, and currently it's very hard for
> >>> them to follow the changes in the trunk. What they would like to have
> is
> >>> snapshots to provide easily patches for the EFL.
> >>
> >> how is that hard? svn checkout or update instead of wget. u also need
> to run
> >> autogen.sh.
> >>
> >>> Would it be possible to have, during the freeze period, some daily
> >>> snashots ? It would be nice to fix the openBSD port for the release.
> >>
> >> open to patches, but none have been submitted.
> >
> > Are you kidding ? I though you were reading the svn log. I take a lot
> > of my time pushing / polishing these diff (special thanks to vtorrin,
> > bluebugs and billiob).
> > So you come from nowhere and make all this work looking bad, here and
> > on irc, that's amazing.
>
> Sometimes he acts this way. Don't take it personal, don't let it
> demotivate you.
> Keep the good work ! =)
>
>
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> >
> > if they require tarballs to
> >> test and can't just run svn instead to fetch the source... i don't have
> the
> >> time each day to make tarballs when they can just as easily fetch from
> svn.
> >> it's the same work on their part. making tarballs is MORE work on our
> part.
> >
> > You missed the point, we want to be sure that the final archive will be
> ok.
> > I'm not asking for snapshot on a daily basis, only some rc before the
> > final archive.
> > (Wait no project did alpha & rc, right ?)
> >
> >
> >>
> >>> Note that i discuss also with a Mageia e17 maintainer, and he told me
> that
> >>> such snapshots will help him too.
> >>
> >> a snapshot has no more quality than an svn checkout, so other than a
> mental
> >> block thinking svn == totally unstable/unusable and an unwillingness to
> use it
> >> because of a mental block, i don't see the point.
> >
> > yeah a mental block, I think you don't want to know how many time I
> > have to reroll a dist to get all working and how frustating it is.
> >
> >>
> >> a release that has had quality assurance done on it is a different
> matter - but
> >> we arent doing them every day. hell no - not with al the efl trees we
> have.
> >> only chance of that is if we stopped having separate libs and just
> merged them
> >> into a single efl tree.
> >>
> >>> Vincent
> >>>
> >>>
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