Yes, this can be done very easily. There is already binaries on http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/ that can be downloaded as a zip or tar.gz file. I might try to tage some with an rc2 tag to prepare everything and every packager. I forgot to do that, but probably tomorrow.
2015-11-09 22:23 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]>: > > > On 11/9/2015 9:13 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote: >> 2015-11-09 14:54 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]>: >>> On 11/8/2015 6:01 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote: >>>> Hi Wayne >>>> >>>> Thank you for realasing. Although the download link is a bit strange.. >>>> it still partly refers to rc1. >>>> >>>> https://launchpad.net/kicad/4.0/4.0.0-rc1/+download/kicad-4.0.0-rc2.tar.xz >>>> >>>> But anyway, I guess we can just say that the docs, and their >>>> translations, and the GUI translations shall be done in two weeks if >>>> they want to be included with the release. The same witht he libs, if >>>> anything is is left to be done, and we can just take a snapshot of the >>>> libs and put it on the download page. >>> >>> I'm wondering if we should branch the translation and doc repos. Once >>> new features and strings are added to kicad during the next development >>> cycle, updating the translation and doc repos will not make sense >>> against the 4.0 stable release of kicad. Creating 4.0 branches of the >>> doc and translation repos would allow for new translations and improved >>> documentation for the 4.0 stable release. There would be some >>> cross-over between the 4.0 and development repos which would be a bit >>> more work. I'm OK with tagging the current repos as well. The downside >>> to that is there will be no new translations or doc improvements until >>> the next stable release. I'll leave that up to the doc and translation >>> folks. Tagging and a snapshot archive makes sense for the lib repo. >> >> I think just tagging it should be sufficient to generate a release >> tarball on github (4.0.0.0). If we need followup changes we can make a >> leaf branch from there or later on the master branch with 4.0.0.1. I >> don't think -n is good here, because multiple packaging systems use a >> dash number notation to describe revisions of the packaging scripts >> themselves. The triplet is reserved to the kicad source, so we must >> need some other indicator for auxiliary stuff. But we really need to >> align the version numbers across the source code, docs, translations >> and libs. > > I just thought of something. We will need a way to fetch the built > documentation for packaging on platforms that don't have the native > tools to build the docs from source. I still have not had any success > building the docs from source on windows. This means that if we do tag > the doc repo rather than branch it, we will need to be able provide > builds from the tagged version of at least the pdf files for all > languages. I'm assuming this can be done. If not, we will have to find > alternative. > >> >>>> 2015-11-08 23:11 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]>: >>>>> I just finished up getting all of the relevant code for RC2 uploaded to >>>>> launchpad so let's fire up those autobuilders and get some rc2 packages >>>>> out there for testing. I'm hoping this will be the last rc before the >>>>> stable release. Let's keep our fingers crossed. We need start thinking >>>>> about branching or tagging the library, documentation, and translation >>>>> repos so that packagers can build consistent packages for their >>>>> respective platforms. Thanks to everyone who made this possible. I'm >>>>> going to step away from my computer for a while and enjoy the adult >>>>> beverage of my choice. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> >>>>> Wayne >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
