Re: Alpha-11 blockers

On Pre , 2004-02-20 at 12:17, Meredydd wrote:
> On Friday 20 February 2004 14:21, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > Can we get the core and ebqt (and whatever else needs it),
> > distchecking properly,
> OK, I don't know autotools, or to be quite honest even what a distcheck 
> is. Please do enlighten me.

For the benefit of others, distcheck is an automake rule that creates a
versioned tarball, and then tries to build, install, uninstall, and make
sure that everything is cleaned up properly, from that tarball.

> > with sane versions (0.11.0 vs. alpha-11),
> Is there a particular reason for this? I rather like the alpha-X 
> sequence myself...

Using numeric characters in the version /number/ is just much saner,
and a better practice. It allows for version comparison in packaging
systems to handle things correctly, rather than having to epoch the
packages with every release (which is very bad, since epochs are
supposed to be used as a last-resort thing).

> > I'll try to grab the core out of svn and see if there is anything
> > else that would be nice to do. 
> Please do! Any particular areas you're considering?

Just the build in general for now. I just tried to grab from svn, and it
isn't working. I tried all 3 of the "branches" and it just errors out
after creating the first directory.

svn: RA layer request failed
svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/!svn/vcc/default'
svn: The REPORT request returned invalid XML in the response: Unknown
 XML element 'txdelta (in svn:)'. (/svn/!svn/vcc/default)

That's the error. I have no idea what it means. :) I have yet to have a
good experience with svn, for what it's worth.

Since it's not working, I'll just make a diff against the alpha 10
tarball core, and mail it in.

-- dobey