Le mercredi 06 mai 2009, à 00:48 +0300, Felipe Contreras a écrit : > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Robin Sonefors <[email protected]> wrote: > > On tis, 2009-05-05 at 23:10 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > >> > >> Imagine someone who has been on a GNOME hiatus or is a new comer. What > >> would be easier to understand? '1-2' or 'stable'? > > > > If I want the sources for the gedit in Gnome 2.26, cloning gedit's > > repository and checking out the branch 'gnome-2-26' sounds like an > > easy-to-remember way to do it. If I want the sources for gedit in Gnome > > 2.24, I can probably deduce that 'gnome-2-24' sounds like a branch to > > look for. > > Right, 'gnome-2-24' does actually point to the latest release (2.24.3)
No. It points to the latest code in the 2.24 branch. There might be code after the release. It's a branch, it's not a tag. So, maybe I don't understand what you're saying because I misunderstand git? > which is good and I think all the GNOME projects should have such > branches (perhaps 'gnome-2.24' instead) so it's easier to manually > checkout the sources you want. But that's not in the guidelines, and > it seems not even GTK+ is following that. I believe right now in order > to find out all the latest stable packages for a certain GNOME release > you need to use something like jhbuild. Again, it's in the guidelines. Not for GTK+ since GTK+ is an independent project. But it is for GNOME modules. See http://live.gnome.org/MaintainersCorner#branches Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
