On 03/02/15 14:09, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > Hello. > > On 30/01/15 10:36, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote: >> 2015-01-30 11:56 GMT+03:00 Martin Jansa <martin.ja...@gmail.com>: >>> From package maintainer point of view, it would be much better with preN >>> in filenames. >>> >>> Using the same filenames will cause our source mirrors to keep >>> pre-release tarballs instead of the final ones. So I won't be updating >>> meta-efl OE layer for pre-releases. >> >> Yes, please add prefix to file names or postfix, because archives >> cached and identical file names can create collisions. > > These are not beta tarballs or anything. The intend of them is that they > are _identical_ to the final tarballs. > > Let me explain why I do it like this. I'm willing to listen and maybe > change afterwards. > > When starting with stable update releases we got the request from > packagers that they want to have the tarballs we consider final to give > us feedback on them. > > If nothing shows up, which is the case in 99% of the cases, I will just > move these into the official release folder and thus make them the final > tarballs. > > So what you two want would break this use case as I have to change > configure.ac again and re-run distcheck. > > I personally don't see a big benefit for this pre-release tarballs but > people wanted them so I added them in the process. We they are not > longer wanted/needed I would skip this completely and directly to the > stable release. In 99% of the cases this will just work fine and it > saves me time. The rest 1% would need a instant follow up release but > should still be less time in total.
They are useful because packagers are able to test and give the final OK before we actually release. -- Tom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
