will fix this but not before the weekend I think

allard

On Jul 20, 10:22 am, Yuval Levy <goo...@levy.ch> wrote:
> allard wrote:
> > The warnings at the
> > first screen of the installer don't make much sense yet because I have
> > not adapted that particular piece of text. Also, because it is based
> > on the officially dubbed 0.8 release 4008, while Ad has already
> > released 4012, the page it refers you to after installation says this
> > is an old version....
>
> welcome to the differences between "snapshots" and final releases.
>
> remember your first installer, when you removed the call to the URL that
> shows the welcome page? you want to do that for a release.
>
> the idea of the web page redirect is that snapshots are short lived -
> hence upon installation the users are directed to a webpage that tells
> them whether they have the bleeding edge / latest snapshot or not.
>
> it could be extended to releases, but I would do it differently. there
> is no need for dynamics, so rather than the url with ?SVN=... I would
> put a fix URL inside url.txt, pointing it to a web page that is specific
> for that release, 
> e.g.http://hugin.sourceforge.net/installed/0.8.0.shtml(which does not exist
> yet) and put on that page the information relevant to the release.
>
> and: for an official release package you want to polish the warnings and
> other text. they are all snapshot specific. one wants to hope that we
> did some polishing before releasing final 0.8.0.
>
> Ad (and anybody else) can continue to build and publish snapshots, the
> system will be trimmed so that it points you to the very latest based on
> SVN number. If 64bit snapshots become current and asynchronized with
> 32bit snapshots, we may need a more fine grained solution in the short
> term. in the long term i'd like to see both 32 and 64 bit snapshots
> produced with a single script like the one used by Ad.
>
> Yuv
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