On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Mook <mookgcc+gm...@gmail.com> wrote: > The only real reason to use buildbot for releases of any sort that I > know of was simply to use the slaves. It is quite possible to manually > roll a build identical to the buildbot using the makefile - after all, > buildbot just grabs the copy from (IIRC) svn head anyway.
A big reason to use them is the tracking of the build, such as with the logs. > The builds (binaries) themselves were uploaded more as an afterthought - > we already build them, and it might be useful for developer testing. Not really. Even back before buildbot, when I Was doing every build myself manually using that script, I was still uploading each build. > The (obsolete) plan was to one day let buildbot handle releases (svn > tag) as well; there are bits in the buildbot setup left to try to handle > this, though I suspect it's broken. I fixed all that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
