Hi Allard,

do I understand correctly that you are building the release so that we 
can upload it to the official Sourceforge repository?

Yuv


allard wrote:
> will fix this but not before the weekend I think
> 
> allard
> 
> On Jul 20, 10:22 am, Yuval Levy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> allard wrote:
>>> The warnings at the
>>> first screen of the installer don't make much sense yet because I have
>>> not adapted that particular piece of text. Also, because it is based
>>> on the officially dubbed 0.8 release 4008, while Ad has already
>>> released 4012, the page it refers you to after installation says this
>>> is an old version....
>> welcome to the differences between "snapshots" and final releases.
>>
>> remember your first installer, when you removed the call to the URL that
>> shows the welcome page? you want to do that for a release.
>>
>> the idea of the web page redirect is that snapshots are short lived -
>> hence upon installation the users are directed to a webpage that tells
>> them whether they have the bleeding edge / latest snapshot or not.
>>
>> it could be extended to releases, but I would do it differently. there
>> is no need for dynamics, so rather than the url with ?SVN=... I would
>> put a fix URL inside url.txt, pointing it to a web page that is specific
>> for that release, 
>> e.g.http://hugin.sourceforge.net/installed/0.8.0.shtml(which does not exist
>> yet) and put on that page the information relevant to the release.
>>
>> and: for an official release package you want to polish the warnings and
>> other text. they are all snapshot specific. one wants to hope that we
>> did some polishing before releasing final 0.8.0.
>>
>> Ad (and anybody else) can continue to build and publish snapshots, the
>> system will be trimmed so that it points you to the very latest based on
>> SVN number. If 64bit snapshots become current and asynchronized with
>> 32bit snapshots, we may need a more fine grained solution in the short
>> term. in the long term i'd like to see both 32 and 64 bit snapshots
>> produced with a single script like the one used by Ad.
>>
>> Yuv
> > 


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