Re: Garnome weekly builds: a rant...

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Guenther,

I am feeling better now, thank you [:-)]...

I am running the latest desktop having built all of desktop, office, and
fifth-toe. geektoys is presenting more of a challenge.  I am filing bug
reports on bugzilla as I move along.  I will report on my progress with
geektoys later this evening.


-Joseph

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On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 21:17 +0200, guenther wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 21:51 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> > Rant on:
> > 
> > It would be a really "good thing" if a weekly build were known to be
> > build-able on some [any???] platform before it is released to the
> > unknowing. Throwing out something that may build just because you are
> > feeling "lucky" is not a very good idea
> 
> Well, which weekly tarballs?
> 
> Unstable ones (2.11) are expected to be just this -- unstable. There
> often is a lot of effort necessary to even build *stable* releases
> without issues on most platforms. This is the major part of the work.
> 
> However, *any* snapshot is work in progress and is not a (un)stable
> release...
> 
> 
> > Rant off:
> 
> You likely are the most helpful user building and testing a lot of
> releases and giving valuable feedback.
> 
> Now what if every supposedly unstable snapshot would build perfectly out
> of the box... ;-)
> 
> 
> > I am making progress. Desktop is cranking away.  Evolution-2.3.3,
> > patched with missing files from CVS, is now building.  I will report
> > back tomorrow when I am less cranky.
> 
> Evolution 2.3.3 is known to have some build issues. A new minor release
> 2.3.3.1 is expected to be released tomorrow.
> 
> ...guenther
> 
> 
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