1 Dec 2008 08:30
Re: Client Snapshot Builds
Quick notes (I've probably missed some - if I've missed anything important, follow up). The list of supported platform is largely based on user input. I've not had a mac, so that is based on someone providing patches (if necessary) and saying it works. On going testing of those platforms does not happen by me, and maybe not at all. At one point, I think the list was a lot longer, but then we started asking 'just when is the last time someone tried to compile on irix?'. For what its worth, I've moved for redhat linux to solaris (x86/amd64) so cover that base. The official release cycle is slow for a variety of reasons - off the top of my head: - Broken release system - the tools/components are there, but changes have been made (addition/removal of file being most common) such that release/packaging fails. Not hard to fix, but takes time. - For official releases, desire to have stable components (no big check in the day before). But folks also like to have a chance to fix bug and make other changes before the release, which sort of goes against stability (fixing bugs should make things more stable, but not always the case) - Scheduling becomes a problem - between the packaging, uploading, and updating the page on sourceforge, it would be a couple hour process. It may be the case that I have the time right now, but to let everyone have a chance to put in the patches, change, etc it means a couple weeks time, when I may not have time. - The only real part of the official release was the source tar balls. Binaries may come later or not at all (I only did x86_64 rpms - never did anything more)(Continue reading)
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