Re: Garnome weekly builds: a rant...

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

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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