Hi Justin,
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:31:19AM +1100, Justin Mclean wrote:
> One thing people are going to have trouble with: The instruction need
> improving the README points to [1] which has: "You do not need to
> download source code and build the newt tool for this project. You
> will simply use the available executable instead.”
>
> Which is not much help if you only have the source release :-) IMO
> should point to instructions on how the build from the source release
> or better still have the instructions in the README as they can change
> from release to release.
That is a good point. I agree that the readme files definitely do need
some work.
> One very minor thing usually each RC is named slightly differently
> -rc1, -rc2 etc etc (or in this case -b1, -b2, etc etc) so it easy to
> distinguish between them, there’s no caching issues or the like.
> Basically one less thing that could go wrong :-)
You are saying the "-b1" should go at the end of the filename? I.e.,
apache-larva-0.8.0-incubating-b1.tgz
(in the release candidate, the "-b1" is before "-incubating").
That sounds like a good idea. This is a change we should incorporate
into the next release. Too bad there will be a naming inconsistency
among the first two releases (assuming the vote for this one passes),
but that is certainly not a major issue.
> BTW Did anyone test the release build on a real board?
Marko already answered this question directly, but I want to add that we
do have plans to run automated tests on a variety of hardware, rather
than just the x86 simulator. The Mynewt testutil library that we use
for the simulated tests was written with this use case in mind. Of
course, it will take quite a bit of work to get this fully up and
running :).
Thanks,
Chris
