On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 6:06 PM Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> wrote:
> > > On 3/8/20, 3:30 PM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of Marnen Laibow-Koser" > <lilypond-devel-bounces+c_sorensen=byu....@gnu.org on behalf of > mar...@marnen.org> wrote: [...] > > > Wouldn’t they all be triggered off the same Git event? > > > It seems to me that nightly (or git commit related) builds would have the > version of the *next* unstable release. Why do you think that? It’s one possibility, sure, but there are others. I haven’t done the research yet to know which option makes sense here. So a script on Marnen's site that builds an app bundle and uploads it to > lilypond.org would have the release already on the website *before* the > GUB build was released. Meaning the GUB build of the next version that wouldn’t even exist yet? However, this file wouldn't be linked anywhere on the website, so nobody > would have a link to it (although, I guess they could guess what it is, > since it has a known name structure). If I were to upload it, I’d make sure there was a link of some sort to it. Otherwise what’s the point? > > When an official release is made, the already-existing file is on > lilypond.org. And the next periodic build from Marnen's site would be > for the *next* unstable version. I don’t see how this follows from anything I’ve said... > > So I'm in favor of > > * Giving Marnen's CI site access to upload files at lilypond.org (Small quibble: ideally, this will soon be the LilyPond project’s CI site, not ‘mine’. I really don’t want to be the sole person in charge of this.) <http://lilypond.org> > * Using CI to provide regular upload to lilypond.org of the *next* stable > version of lilypond. What do you mean by “next stable version”? > > > Also, I'm in favor of automating Marnen's process as a test for future > possible automation that doesn't use GUB. > > Marnen, thank you so much for developing the lilypond .app bundle! I > need that to be able to use multiple versions of lilypond with Frescobaldi > on OSX. I'm really happy that you've done this work! You’re most welcome! Interesting point about multiple versions; some package managers support that use case and some do not. But .app bundles always trivially support it. > > Thanks, > > Carl Best, > > -- Marnen Laibow-Koser mar...@marnen.org http://www.marnen.org Sent from Gmail Mobile