Re: [GD-DEVEL] release creation

hi,

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> any plans for handling creation of releases ?  we'll of course start with
> tagging a commit in the git repo for a specific version, but is that where we
> stop ?
>
> i find such releases to be annoying for distro maintainers.  they get a tarball
> with no pregenerated files so they have to generate everything themselves.
>
> autotools provides a way to easily create & check tarballs:
>         make distcheck
> now we have to host that tarball somewhere.

bitbucket has a download section for each repository, we will link it
from the (new) http://libgd.org

> i don't think checking in pregenerated files is the answer as timestamps can
> easily get skewed, and the tools one dev has on their system vs another can
> vary greatly.  thus everytime someone generates autotools on their system,
> they get a repo full of modified files.

I agree, my only problem is that I have to find a way to get autoconf
2.69 or later on my dev boxes so I can build releases. This version is
required to support newest ARM as far as I know (there is an issue
about it). Do you know if it is available somewhere for debian 6? If I
can avoid building it myself :)

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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