Re: [Tracker] ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.9.31 released (unstable)

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 13/12/10 03:56, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi!

Hi there,

> 2010/12/10 Martyn Russell<martyn lanedo com>:
> >   * build: Binaries built now use *stable* named versions only (i.e. 0.10 not
> > 0.9)
>
> So, 0.9.31 is not declared stable yet, but you already use the stable
> version names. That's a bit confusing.
> Could you elaborate on this?

Sure.

> Do you expect no more API incompatible changes before the stable release?

It's not really about that. We did this for a few reasons:

- It just makes switching when we do a stable release that much easier 
and less (potentially) problematic on the day.

- The library version has the actual version in it anyway, so I don't 
see it being confusing, i.e. "libtracker-sparql-0.10.so.0.930.0", == 0.9.30.

- Applications don't have to switch from unstable 0.9.x version 
dependencies to 0.10.x in their projects when we start stable releases 
(i.e. with pkg-config checks in configure). They just continue seamlessly.

- Using pkg-config --modversion tracker-sparql-0.10 still reports the 
correct version. Any packages build using the debian machinery or others 
should also have the correct version anyway.

- Vala does it as I am sure other projects do (GStreamer? not checked)

What about it is confusing for you?

> And on a completely different note, "make install" seems to install
> over 150Mb of data into /usr/share/tracker-tests here.

They don't, If you build with --disable-functional-tests they shouldn't 
be built or installed. I didn't know it was 150Mb though, that's quite 
shocking. If the --disable-functional-tests doesn't do it, 
--disable-gtk-doc definitely should.

> Is that really intentional? Why do those files need to be installed?

They're installed because the tests are run on some systems as a means 
of testing Tracker before it is integrated into some repositories. I 
sorry, I can only be vague here, but it should be possible to disable 
with the flag above.

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Regards,
Martyn