Re: [cowiki-dev] Nightly snaps

Seems like the real value is to be able to go back to the last time a 
/change/ was made.  If there's an easy way to keep the new package only 
if it's different from the previous one, that's good.  If not, then 
every day is better.

Paul

Daniel T. Gorski wrote:

>On 02 May 00:03, Vish Vishvanath wrote:
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>>>A new nightly build if something has changed :-) If nothing changes for
>>>30 days, we don't need 30 identical files that claim that they are the
>>>"latest snapshot".
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>>>Code for this is in dist/buildpackage.sh (at least in the CVS version,
>>>maybe not in the version on your server).
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>>Hmm - that's quite possibly where you're wrong.
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>Yes, I sometimes are.
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>>I think it's important to maintain regular snaps, regardless of whether
>>anything has been changed in the code or not. The point is that we're
>>providing "nightly snapshots", not "the most up-to-date code".
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>Anyway, IMO it makes no sense to produce identical snapshots if nothing
>changes for weeks, as nobody were comfortably able to get a snapshot before
>the latest one. Its logical for me to have "the most up-to-date code" snaps
>- especially if we have bigger time gaps in the development and do not
>provide new code daily (which is the case).
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>regards dtg
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