On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:18:29 +0100 (CET) Vincent Torri <vto...@univ-evry.fr> > said: > >> >> Hey >> >> I'm talking a lot with an openBSD dev, and currently it's very hard for >> them to follow the changes in the trunk. What they would like to have is >> snapshots to provide easily patches for the EFL. > > how is that hard? svn checkout or update instead of wget. u also need to run > autogen.sh. i don't really know. They just say "it's very hard for us". >> Would it be possible to have, during the freeze period, some daily >> snashots ? It would be nice to fix the openBSD port for the release. > > open to patches, but none have been submitted. As I said, I'm discussing with an openBSD guy which send me a github link with all their patches (in #e.fr). > if they require tarballs to > test and can't just run svn instead to fetch the source... i don't have the > time each day to make tarballs when they can just as easily fetch from svn. > it's the same work on their part. making tarballs is MORE work on our part. > >> Note that i discuss also with a Mageia e17 maintainer, and he told me that >> such snapshots will help him too. > > a snapshot has no more quality than an svn checkout, so other than a mental > block thinking svn == totally unstable/unusable and an unwillingness to use it > because of a mental block, i don't see the point. > > a release that has had quality assurance done on it is a different matter - > but > we arent doing them every day. hell no - not with al the efl trees we have. > only chance of that is if we stopped having separate libs and just merged them > into a single efl tree. but in the case of a freeze, that would also allow "common" user to test the code, I think, without having svn installed on their computer. Vincent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
