Re: scripting SF releasing, was: click-less release, anyone?

[Alexandre Duret-L. <du...@lr...>]

[Courtesy copy of http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=244981]

>>> "Tom" == Tom Roche <Tom...@nc...> writes:

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 >> Steps 1, 2, 4, and 5 are easily automated.

 Tom> It is not so easy for me! Could you send me a copy of the source of
 Tom> whatever you are currently using? I may be smart enough to make the
 Tom> appropriate changes :-)

I'm using the following script to make alpha releases of Heroes:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/heroes/heroes/tools/alpha.sh?rev=1.4&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

This upload the tarballs to the WWW area (I don't upload alpha
releases through the SF release system since it's so painful).

[...]

 Tom> Did anyone follow up on your excellent suggestions? I don't see any
 Tom> other posts in this thread in the SF forum. Did you get any response
 Tom> to this post through other means?

 Tom> Have you followed up on this? Did you try submitting this as an SF 
 Tom> feature request?

No I haven't.  My original intention was just to post this news
to see how other people care about this and get better
suggestions.

With the ongoing termination of the FTP services, there have
been a couple of support request complaining about the lack of
command line interface.  See
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=460014&group_id=1&atid=200001
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=459522&group_id=1&atid=200001

Right after your reply, which revived this old thread, I
received an e-mail from 'Fred P.' introducing the 'WIDE'
project.  'WIDE' stands for 'Web IDE', so apparently it's not
what we want, except if this IDE actually calls a command-line
interface to SF.  Here is a quote from Fred's mail:

 fp> we are developping a new project on SourceForge,
 fp> to make it easier to interface scripts and SF,
 fp> we also want to create fast and easy newbies-proof
 fp> interface for SF also.
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz