Nice to have weekly development releases!

Some tips:

About the zip file.

It would be better if you just made a tag from the trunk version.

The svn repo makes "smart copies" when you tag something, meaning that the size of the repo will not grow much at all. The repo size will grow dramatically if a zip file is added each week.

When you tag something the history is maintained for files, this is often useful information for developers.

If you make the releases as tags, a developer can choose if he or she wish to check out, switch to, or export to that version. Switch is powerful, since if you have a working copy and make a switch, only differences in the changed files will be transmitted over the network.

But I can see one point with the zip files. Developers doesn't need to have svn installed. For those lame developers ;) that doesn't have svn installed, your script could export the newly created tag, zip it, and publish it on the webserver. But there is no need to version control it, since its content is identical to the tag.


Another thing...

There is a path convention with svn repositories - only the directories "trunk", "tags", and "branches" should reside in the project root directory. A suggestion would be to put the "developer_releases" into the "tags" folder, i.e. www.openscenegraph.com/svn/osg/OpenSceneGraph/tags/developer_releases/ .



Den 2007-04-23 22:26:21 skrev Robert Osfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Hi All,

I have now changed my scripts to use export, and did a fresh tag of
OpenSceneGraph, so we now have a 1.9.1 release, with should have
neither of the .svn or trunk directories that made their way into the
first rev of the developer releases.

As will be usual going forward, you can find the links to the latest
developer releases at:

 http://www.openscenegraph.com/osgwiki/pmwiki.php/Downloads/DeveloperReleases

Robert.
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