On 9/14/2013 19:11, Erik van Pienbroek wrote: > Adrien Nader schreef op za 14-09-2013 om 08:13 [+0200]: >> I've already mentioned that; I really prefer to have tarballs and >> releases, even if they are "preview" or "alpha". >> Currently everyone uses a different CRT and it's almost impossible to >> remember the differences between them. >> >> PS: I prefer tarballs which can be downloaded rather than pointing to a >> revision or commit because everyone will have for sure the exact same >> source up to the name of the tarball. > > How about we switch to a release model like the Wine folks do: every two > weeks a new release is done of the trunk branch. Then once in in every > while (say half a year) we can do a new stable release which is fully > tested etc. These snapshot releases can then be properly identified > using #define's so that downstream projects can identify which version > of mingw-w64 is used. Having more frequent stable releases also helps > all Linux distributions which have new release once every a half a year. > > Most of this can be automated using scripts and/or cronjobs so that one > only has to manually sign-off and publish generated tarballs. >
Daily automated tarballs already done by buildbot. Probably need to add something like svnversion to generate release revision info in a special header. As long as svn trunk remains as the sole development reference, I'm OK with this.
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