Re: [Quantlib-dev] New tarballs

[Ferdinando A. <na...@am...>]

Dirk:

>Agreed in principle. Pristine upstream sources are a good thing.
>
>As I mentioned, I did make a slight mistake by calling it 0.3.4 in the first
>line of the changelog paragraph:
>[...]
>So it's a trade off. If we really feel that the tarballs must be identical,
>I do a new upload -- but then I must also use a higher number such as
>0.3.4.1 or 0.3.4.final or whatever.
>
>As we'd trade one inconsistency for another, shall we agree to sit tight.

Today I fixed 3 more doc files, and at least one of them is relevant in my 
opinion: the list of copyright holder in the License.

If everybody agree I would also fix 2 more minor issues:
1) remove the Intel OnTheEdgeRelease configuration (Marco: this is the last 
call ;-)
2) remove the 'typedef double Real' line in types.hpp, so to close the 
following bug report:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=824364&group_id=12740&atid=362740



As general cosideration on the release process, I noticed that the problems 
we usually have are about:
1) missing Win32 files in the tar.gz distribution
2) documentation updates

The first point could be smoothed next time if I check Luigi's tarball 
before it is processed for Debian/RPM, the second one if everybody help 
revise the TXT files in the distribution and the first 50-60 pages of the 
doxygen documentation (in whatever format you prefer: pdf/ps/html/man/WinHelp)

Of course it is of help to know as soon as possible if the build was ok 
with Debian on their multiple platforms, so we might assume that 2 rounds 
of Debian builds will be usual :)

>I just uploaded the ql-python and ql-ruby packages. I'll pass on guile and
>mzscheme which are to esoteric for me :)
I checked QuantLib-Python and it works on Win32

QuantLib-Ruby 0.3.4 doesn't work, as it was for 0.3.3: Luigi, do you plan 
to investigate this for 0.3.4 or should we just take Ruby as a Unix only 
package?

I haven't finished with QuantLib-MzScheme, but it should be ok

ciao -- Nando