On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Kent Mein <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to Campbell Barton ([email protected]): >> >> When we do releases we should do this but sometimes nobody does it. >> >> Arch linux package spec also complains of this... >> # Apparently, the blender guys refuse to release source tarballs for >> # intermediate releases that deal mainly with binaries but incorporate tiny >> # minor changes from cvs. Since I'm sick and tired of the urges of users that >> # look for release numbers only we make a messy PKGBUILD that can checkout >> cvs >> # tags if necessary. >> >> I'm not sure who's responsible for uploading source for releases, >> if nobody else wants to I can make a script to upload exported source >> tree and upload on release. >> > > I've done them a lot of the times. I know I haven't done all of them > though. I haven't really been on top of it, because we sometimes > do multiple builds of things and its easier to wait a day or two before > making it. > > I wouldn't say it's my offical job, but I've tried to make sure its there > every release, and the only times I haven't done it, are when someone > else has done it first. > > It's maybe been questionable to do them on alpha's or betas but if you > look at the source dir I think we have one for every single release we > have had. > > Honestly thought I wonder if we really should be doing them at all anymore. > I guess if people still want them, but I know I haven't used a tarball > of blender for at least 8 years. I's say they are a waste of space at > this point. Our svn tree is online and has clear tags for releases. > > Kent
This is mainly useful for package spec files which reference a URL and a checksum, for building the package its quicker to download the archive and build rather then doing an svn checkout so I think it would be good to have, even for beta releases. -- - Campbell _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
