Andrew Miller wrote: > David Nickerson wrote: >> just a note on all the release candidates that have been coming out >> recently. Within all the tarball's the software is contained in a >> directory that looks like a snapshot release of the release branch - >> i.e., pcenv-snap20061116branch0_1. It would be useful, to me at least, >> to have the directory with a name more similar to the release candidate >> tarball filename - i.e., pcenv-x86_Linux-0.1rc3. >> >> Once you start having multiple RC's scattered around the place it starts >> to get a bit confusing as to which one corresponds to which candidate. >> > What about if they all extracted to the name of the final release they > are a candidate for? It is not really a release candidate if the > contents of the packages have to change between the candidate and final > (although perhaps I could write a script which extracts binaries, > renames the directory, and re-compresses, and there would very little > risk of breakage).
It is sometimes nice to be able to have multiple RC's available at one time, and while that could be done by "installing" them in different locations its easier for me to simply extract the tarball in the same place knowing that I'll get different directory names. But I'm also happy with your suggestion of extracting to the final release directory, seems a reasonably common approach from other projects. _______________________________________________ cellml-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion
