Mark Hindess wrote: > On 25 June 2007 at 13:59, "Stepan Mishura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 6/24/07, Mikhail Loenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> We have passed our code freeze date for M2 >>> >> Mikhail, >> >> Just to be clear - M1 milestone published snapshots include build for >> Windows x86, Linux (libstdc++ v5 and libstdc++ v6) x86 and Windows >> x86_64. > > Do you think it would be possible to produce source snapshots? The > Apache release FAQ (at http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html ) says: > > The Apache Software Foundation produces open source software. All > releases are in the form of the source materials needed to make > changes to the software being released.
(tongue in cheek) Yeah, we declare a SVN revision number checkout as our source code delivery. > In some cases, binary/bytecode > packages are also produced as a convenience to users that might > not have the appropriate tools to build a compiled version of the > source. In all such cases, the binary/bytecode package must have > the same version number as the source release and may only add > binary/bytecode files that are the result of compiling that version of > the source code release. > > Currently binaries are our primary artifact. I appreciated that it may > be a little late to try to correct this for this release, but I think it > is important that we try to correct this before we get too comfortable > with the current release process. Agreed, it would be good to have a source code download that corresponds to each snapshot/milestone. > It should now be possible to do: > > ant bundle_src > mkdir /tmp/build > tar -C /tmp/build -xzf target/apache-harmony-src-r550411-snapshot.tar.gz > cd /tmp/build/harmony-src-550411 > ant -Dauto.fetch=true > > which would seem to me to be more in-keeping with the Apache release > guidelines. I don't think we are unique in our current practice, but "yes" we should. > On this subject, I'd like to permission to commit a patch to correct the > top-level directory name in the source tar.gz/zip files from: > > harmony-src-550411 > > to: > > apache-harmony-src-r550411 > > The format of the archive names changed over time and these have become > inconsistent. No objection from me, but I don't depend upon that name so you may choose to wait until you hear from people who are more focused on the build-test infra to see if they would be disrupted by it. Regards, Tim
