Niklaus Giger wrote:
> Am Montag, 18. Dezember 2006 15:39 schrieb Gilles Chanteperdrix:
>> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> @all: please give the -rc3 tar.bz2 hell! New files can easily slip
>>> through the developer fingers when it comes to distribution (I know this
>>> very well /wrt RTnet...).
>> The way around this is to run automated scripts using the result of a
>> make distcheck instead of using an svn checkout. Niklaus, how hard would
>> it be to change the buildbot to do this ?
> What do you want the buildbot do to exactly?
> a) First svn checkout followed by make distcheck?  This is easy. eg. I would 
> just add an additional step before the "configured
> xenomai"
> 
> b) Grab tarballs, extract them to clean directory? Here I need to study the 
> buildbot a bit better, as it does no concept for tarballs as ChangeSources. 
> But I might write a small script which polls 
> http://download.gna.org/xenomai/testing/ and
> http://download.gna.org/xenomai/stable/ for new tarballs. If found I would 
> unpack it somewhere and submit the change to some new builders Buildbot 
> (similar to the /buildbot-full/).
> This will probably take a few hours of work, but quite for some time I felt 
> uncomfortable about neither testing branches nor releases.
> If this solution works I would suggest that the release manager should delay 
> announcing the availability of a new releases till he has examined the 
> results of the buildbot.
> 
> What variant do you prefer?

I rather think c) is desired: checkout from svn, make dist, untar that
archive and continue to work with *those* sources.

Jan

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