sorry for my ignorance, but is there anything i can do to help, or is this something that BF just "does" ???
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Campbell Barton <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
