Re: WSL-4.0 release candidate

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> I'm nearing being ready to give a release candidate for 4.0.  I've
>> completed the release notes[1] which I would like a review.
>>
>> How should we go about doing this release candidate?  We don't want
>> mingw-get installing this by default; there is an ABI change that will
>> cause a need to rebuild any libraries using opendir and friends.  The
>> release candidate has two purposes, first is the typical testing of a
>> package and secondly is a preparation of packages for the
>> up-and-coming official release.
>>
>> [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/mingw-org-wsl/ci/b3dee57ccbf6f9c4d54e59c122eab562d1582706/tree/NEWS
>
> Also are these package names good for a release candidate?
>
> mingwrt-4.0-rc1-1-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma
> mingwrt-4.0-rc1-1-mingw32-dll.tar.lzma
> mingwrt-4.0-rc1-1-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
> mingwrt-4.0-rc1-1-mingw32-lic.tar.lzma
> mingwrt-4.0-rc1-1-mingw32-src.tar.lzma
> w32api-4.0-rc1-1-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma
> w32api-4.0-rc1-1-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma
> w32api-4.0-rc1-1-mingw32-lic.tar.lzma
> w32api-4.0-rc1-1-mingw32-src.tar.lzma

Does this diff to mingw32-runtime.xml look feasible for the release
candidate?  We could remove it later and move the release to the
previous package releases.

diff --git a/mingw32/mingw32-runtime.xml b/mingw32/mingw32-runtime.xml
index 59a92d3..379f5ae 100644
--- a/mingw32/mingw32-runtime.xml
+++ b/mingw32/mingw32-runtime.xml
@@ -72,6 +72,63 @@
       </component>
     </package>

+    <package name="mingw32-mingwrt-4-0-rc1" alias="mingwrt-4-0-rc1">
+      <affiliate group="MinGW Compiler Suite" />
+      <affiliate group="MinGW Standard Libraries" />
+      <description lang="en" title="The MinGW Runtime Library API">
+        <paragraph>
+          This package provides the header files, system object modules,
+          dynamic link libraries, import libraries and static libraries
+          which constitute the standard MinGW Runtime API.
+        </paragraph>
+        <paragraph>
+          This is a required component of the MinGW Compiler Suite.
+        </paragraph>
+      </description>
+
+      <source tarname="mingwrt-4.0-rc1-1-mingw32-src.tar.lzma" />
+      <license tarname="mingwrt-4.0-rc1-1-mingw32-lic.tar.lzma" />
+
+      <component class="dev">
+	<release tarname="mingwrt-4.0-rc1-1-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma" />
+      </component>
+
+      <component class="dll">
+	<release tarname="mingwrt-4.0-rc1-1-mingw32-dll.tar.lzma" />
+      </component>
+
+      <component class="doc">
+	<release tarname="mingwrt-4.0-rc1-1-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma" />
+      </component>
+    </package>
+
+    <package name="mingw32-w32api-4-0-rc1" alias="w32api-4-0-rc1">
+      <affiliate group="MinGW Compiler Suite" />
+      <affiliate group="MinGW Standard Libraries" />
+      <description lang="en" title="The MinGW API for 32-Bit MS-Windows">
+        <paragraph>
+          This package provides the header files, and import libraries
+          constituting a standard API for the development of applications
+          which utilise the capabilities of the 32-bit MS-Windows system
+          dynamic link libraries.
+        </paragraph>
+        <paragraph>
+          This is a required component of the MinGW Compiler Suite.
+        </paragraph>
+      </description>
+
+      <source tarname="w32api-4.0-rc1-mingw32-src.tar.lzma" />
+      <licence tarname="w32api-4.0-rc1-mingw32-lic.tar.lzma" />
+
+      <component class="dev">
+	<release tarname="w32api-4.0-rc1-1-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma" />
+      </component>
+
+      <component class="doc">
+	<release tarname="w32api-4.0-rc1-1-mingw32-doc.tar.lzma" />
+      </component>
+    </package>
+
   </package-collection>
 </software-distribution>
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