On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:41:52 -0200 Luis Felipe Strano Moraes
<luis.str...@gmail.com> said:

> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Carsten Haitzler
> > <ras...@rasterman.com>wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:21:53 -0200 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> >> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> said:
> >>
> >> > This is bad. Either do 1.7.2 before next alpha, or at least 1.7.2-alpha1
> >> >
> >> > We really want people to test with the exactly same software. That's the
> >> > way to avoid problems like this one, it should never ever happened at
> >> this
> >> > point!
> >> >
> >> > Wasn't discomfitor running from stable EFL to avoid these issues?
> >>
> >> he's runing from the 1.7 branch - which is what will be 1.7.2... but that
> >> didnt have the fix until i added it today. the alpha shouldnt have passed
> >> "make
> >> distcheck".
> >>
> >
> >
> > running from the branch isn't enough. he must run from the last release
> > tarball to be sure he has exactly the same as other users. If there need to
> > be a fix in EFL before next alpha, he must firstly release new EFL snapshot
> > or release, then get E17 on top of that.
> >
> > this is the only way to assure users will be able to compile. I'm being
> > picky here because we're at alpha4 already, very close to end and these
> > kind of things were not expected to happen. But you know, the default theme
> > is far from complete and thus the development may introduce some
> > breakages... then I recommend you, the theme maker, to also run the same
> > setup.
> >
> > as for make distcheck, I have no idea... likely he did not run it? How is
> > the alpha release procedure going on? Just make distcheck and it's gold?
> > Asking more folks at #edevelop to give it a try to tarballs before doing
> > the announcement? Testing with some pristine VM running standard distros
> > (fedora and ubunut)?
> 
> I'm testing (post-release) the alphas on a pristine vm just to make
> sure that the packages install ok and have no issues. Could help mike
> with doing this pre-release as well.
> 
> But I agree, having to ask users to patch by themselves edje (or run
> from the svn branch) is not a really good idea.

i don't have time. i have work to do. i'm actually fixing the bugs as i find
them - i found a massive memory leak today and i have other stuff to do that is
unrelated to e17 release too - like work and stuff.

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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com


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