On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Peer Sommerlund <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2009/1/18 Doug Philips <[email protected]> >> >> On or about Sunday, January 18, 2009, at 09:24AM, TK Soh indited: >> >> >It takes a lot of energy to cut one release of TortoiseHg, and it's >> >not really something I can afford very often. If anyone would like to >> >volunteer to take care of this, then maybe we can make the release >> >process more 'formal', ie. RC before final release. >> > >> >Hopefully thing will be simpler by the time we are done simplifying >> >the build process. >> >> I believe this is a critically serious problem. >> If the main developer(s) find the process so hard that they have to do it >> only when necessary, that makes it virtually impossible for a potential >> part-time contributor to step up, change something and test it before >> submitting a patch. > > It is true that build an installer takes a lot of effort, but for > contributors there is an alternative route: Installation via source code.
That's correct. Sorry I wasn't being clear that I was talking about building the installer. > There is a step by step instruction [1] on the home page, which is not too > difficult. Once this is done, it is easy to contribute individual dialogs, > etc. You will not be able to build an installer, but you can still test the > code you write. > > Regards, > Peer > > [1] http://tortoisehg.sourceforge.net/InstallingTortoiseHg.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
