Re: Development builds available / Boot and System changes

2012-10-11 Thread Richard Porter
On 11 Oct 2012 Chris Newman wrote: > In article <2348b5dc52@nails.abbeypress.net>, >Jim Nagel wrote: > >> I suggest this simple textfile stating a "latest change" date because >> it's tedious to go through the process of merging !Boot and !System on >> three separate machines every ti

Re: Development builds available / Boot and System changes

2012-10-11 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:42:05AM +0100, Richard Porter wrote: > Why not just take the additional resources out of the zip file > altogether and either make them available separately or provide links > to them elsewhere? Like Chris I only update !Boot and !System when I > need to - if !NetSurf

Re: Development builds available / Boot and System changes

2012-10-11 Thread Richard Porter
On 11 Oct 2012 Rob Kendrick wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:42:05AM +0100, Richard Porter wrote: >> Why not just take the additional resources out of the zip file >> altogether and either make them available separately or provide links >> to them elsewhere? Like Chris I only update !Boot and

Re: Development builds available / Boot and System changes

2012-10-11 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:58:37AM +0100, Richard Porter wrote: > On 11 Oct 2012 Rob Kendrick wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:42:05AM +0100, Richard Porter wrote: > >> Why not just take the additional resources out of the zip file > >> altogether and either make them available separately

Re: Development builds available / Boot and System changes

2012-10-11 Thread Michael Drake
In article , Richard Porter wrote: > Why not just take the additional resources out of the zip file > altogether and either make them available separately or provide links > to them elsewhere? Like Chris I only update !Boot and !System when I > need to - if !NetSurf complains or if I'm noti

Re: Development builds available / Boot and System changes

2012-10-11 Thread lists
In article <2348b5dc52@nails.abbeypress.net>, Jim Nagel wrote: > I suggest this simple textfile stating a "latest change" date because > it's tedious to go through the process of merging !Boot and !System on > three separate machines every time a new test build of Netsurf is > installed,

Re: Development builds available / Boot and System changes

2012-10-11 Thread lists
In article <52dcee7e6et...@netsurf-browser.org>, Michael Drake wrote: > > Why not just take the additional resources out of the zip file > > altogether and either make them available separately or provide links > > to them elsewhere? Like Chris I only update !Boot and !System when I > > need

Re: Development builds available / Boot and System changes

2012-10-11 Thread Jim Nagel
Michael Drake wrote on 11 Oct: > We ship NetSurf with what it needs to run. Rob Kendrick wrote on 11 Oct: > we use the same build system and infrastructure to produce test > builds as we do release builds. Understood. But neither of these points prevent the inclusion of the simple textfile I

Re: Development builds available / Boot and System changes

2012-10-11 Thread Graham Pickles
In message Jim Nagel wrote: > Michael Drake wrote on 11 Oct: >> We ship NetSurf with what it needs to run. > Rob Kendrick wrote on 11 Oct: >> we use the same build system and infrastructure to produce test >> builds as we do release builds. > Understood. But neither of these point

Re: Development builds available / Boot and System changes

2012-10-11 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 02:04:08PM +0100, Graham Pickles wrote: > The above (textfile) seems to be a very straight forward and pragmatic > request, easy to implement and would be of assistance to many of us You know where to send patches :) B.

Re: Development builds available / Boot and System changes

2012-10-11 Thread Jim Nagel
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012, at 02:04:08PM +0100, Graham Pickles wrote: >> The above (textfile) seems to be a very straight forward and pragmatic >> request, easy to implement and would be of assistance to many of us An alternative approach (I have no idea of relative ease of implementation) would be to

Re: Development builds available / Boot and System changes

2012-10-11 Thread Michael Drake
In article <890404dd52@nails.abbeypress.net>, Jim Nagel wrote: > An alternative approach (I have no idea of relative ease of > implementation) would be to manually put real datestamps on the > various modules etc once and for all, and on the outer shell of the > !Boot and !System suppli

Re: Development builds available / Boot and System changes

2012-10-11 Thread Dave Higton
In message <52dcd13453cvj...@waitrose.com> Chris Newman wrote: > In article <2348b5dc52@nails.abbeypress.net>, > Jim Nagel wrote: > > > > > I suggest this simple textfile stating a "latest change" date because > > it's tedious to go through the process of merging !Boot and !Sy