Re: Garnome weekly builds: a rant...

[Paul Drain <pd cipherfunk org>]

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

I was actually going to rant-reply to this, but guenther answered it all
for me, so i'll be quiet now :)

Suffice to say, the autobuilder (the script-goodness that powers the
generation of the weekly tarballs) was only configured to build desktop/
and platform/ successfully before cleaning up, forking, making a tarball
and sending me an e-mail that says 'upload this...'

In the next week or two (whenever I get time), i'll clean this up so it
builds *everything* before it does things -- which would make this a lot
more foolproof.

> 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'd have a lot less work to do :)

> 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.

Has this actually appeared yet?

Regards,

Paul