Re: status of snapshots
Andy Wakefield <[email protected]>
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James, Your hard work is very, very much appreciated. Thanks for all you do to maintain this excellent software! -- Andy Wakefield [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: James K. Lowden <[email protected]> Reply-to: FreeTDS Development Group <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [freetds] status of snapshots Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 10:35:46 -0400 On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 23:58:50 -0400 "James K. Lowden" <[email protected]> wrote: > Snapshots are currently broken. That includes the automatically > generated nightly snapshot for CVS HEAD and for the patched version of > the release (0.82). It is also why there's no release candiate yet. Snapshots are currently working. That includes the automatically generated nightly snapshot for CVS HEAD and for the patched version of the release (0.82). And we have a release candidate, correctly spelled after a night's sleep. Automake, to their credit, documented what to do, even hinted at a couple of ways to do it. And the new doc/Makefile.am is just a little easier to maintain. The nightly build and versioning system is due for change. Soon you will see: 1. The HEAD version -- 0.xx.dev.yyyymmdd -- will instead become 0.xx.dev.n, where n increases monotonically with each day for which there's a commit to CVS. 2. The stable version -- soon to be 0.91.0 -- will likewise automatically increment each day there's a commit to CVS. 3. The best way to know when a particular version was released is to look at ChangeLog. However, that's not much use for when looking at a binary if you don't have ident(1). The nightly build system will do something to maintain a database of version numbers and dates, probably by adding a table to the website. (There's a chicken-and-egg problem keeping version data in CVS.) We plan to drop CVS, and Sourceforge, probably in favor of git on github. Your Late Bronze Age maintainer is, really, just fine with CVS and not especially eager to spend time learning yet another metatool. If the choice makes a difference to you, this would be a good time to say so. Your humble maintainer, --jkl _______________________________________________ FreeTDS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/freetds