URL:
<http://gna.org/bugs/?19088>
Summary: Put more Windows installer/packaging material under
version control
Project: Freeciv
Submitted by: jtn
Submitted on: Thu Dec 1 02:55:28 2011
Category: general
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Assigned to: None
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Release:
Discussion Lock: Any
Operating System: Microsoft Windows
Planned Release:
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Details:
The description of packaging for Windows
<http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Install-Windows#Package_Freeciv> refers to
Nullsoft installer scripts, or scripts that generate those scripts, that live
outside of version control. Some of those scripts can be found on
download.gna.org
<http://download.gna.org/freeciv/packages/windows/installer-scripts/>.
It would be nice if some of this material could be moved under version
control. I'm not suggesting any attempt to actually fully automate all the
steps of the Windows package build, but having the latest material visible in
version control might allow more developers to help with Windows packaging
issues. A particular project I think this would help with is making language
selection more slick (bug #19087).
If this were done, routine procedures like changing the version number could
actually be done as part of the tarball release process by autoconf, taking a
.in file and dumping out preprocessed installer script material for inclusion
in the tarball, where the Windows packager could pick it up. I can help with
this if it looks workable.
A possible workflow glitch is that the packager will probably only discover a
required tweak to this material after the release manager has dropped the tag
and built the tarball, so the material used won't be identical to what's in
the tarball. I guess we'll just have to live with that
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