Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Win releases git repository

2023-04-05 Thread Xisco Fauli
Hello Mike, On 3/4/23 13:45, Xisco Fauli wrote: Hello, On 1/4/23 16:00, Mike Kaganski wrote: On 01.04.2023 16:45, Mike Kaganski wrote: 2. I believe we can just have *major* releases, without point releases. I.e., 3.3.0.4; 3.4.0.1; 3.5.0.3; 3.6.0.4; 4.0.0.0.beta1; ... Because when we bibisec

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Win releases git repository

2023-04-03 Thread Xisco Fauli
Hello, On 1/4/23 16:00, Mike Kaganski wrote: On 01.04.2023 16:45, Mike Kaganski wrote: 2. I believe we can just have *major* releases, without point releases. I.e., 3.3.0.4; 3.4.0.1; 3.5.0.3; 3.6.0.4; 4.0.0.0.beta1; ... Because when we bibisect, we do it to do the following bisection in the

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Win releases git repository

2023-04-03 Thread Xisco Fauli
Hello, On 3/4/23 9:11, Mike Kaganski wrote: Why? What is the upside of having them The upside is that it's easier to identify when a regression was introduced. If the repo just has one release closest to the branch point, then there are thousands of commits between each release. However, if

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Win releases git repository

2023-04-03 Thread Mike Kaganski
On 03.04.2023 9:55, Xisco Fauli wrote: 2. I believe we can just have *major* releases, without point releases. I.e., 3.3.0.4; 3.4.0.1; 3.5.0.3; 3.6.0.4; 4.0.0.0.beta1; ... Because when we bibisect, we do it to do the following bisection in the specific repo; so the branch point is the only int

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Win releases git repository

2023-04-02 Thread Xisco Fauli
Hello, On 1/4/23 15:45, Mike Kaganski wrote: Hi! On 31.03.2023 20:50, Xisco Fauli wrote: I recreated the bisect repository from scratch and reuploaded it to https://bibisect.libreoffice.org/win86-releases again. So far it contains the 3.x and 4.x releases and next week I'll add the remainin

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Win releases git repository

2023-04-01 Thread Mike Kaganski
On 01.04.2023 16:45, Mike Kaganski wrote: 2. I believe we can just have *major* releases, without point releases. I.e., 3.3.0.4; 3.4.0.1; 3.5.0.3; 3.6.0.4; 4.0.0.0.beta1; ... Because when we bibisect, we do it to do the following bisection in the specific repo; so the branch point is the only

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Win releases git repository

2023-04-01 Thread Mike Kaganski
Hi! On 31.03.2023 20:50, Xisco Fauli wrote: I recreated the bisect repository from scratch and reuploaded it to https://bibisect.libreoffice.org/win86-releases again. So far it contains the 3.x and 4.x releases and next week I'll add the remaining releases. Trying the repo :) 1. 'git check

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Win releases git repository

2023-03-31 Thread Xisco Fauli
Hello, After playing around with msiexec and talking to Mike in IRC, I realized some of my tweaks mentioned in my previous email were made just to allow instdir/program/soffice.bin to launch LibreOffice. However, when using msiexec, instdir/program/soffice.bin fails to launch LibreOffice, so

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Win releases git repository

2023-03-31 Thread Xisco Fauli
Hi Mike, On 31/3/23 13:01, Mike Kaganski wrote: Possibly it would make sense to use administrative install instead? Possibly that would also make almost all the rest of the steps unnecessary?   msiexec -a path\to\msi The problem is that i'm on Linux so I'm using msiextract from msitools. I

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Win releases git repository

2023-03-31 Thread Mike Kaganski
On 31.03.2023 13:43, Xisco Fauli wrote: At least for 3.x and 4.x releases I had to do the following tweaks: 1. Extract files from msi Possibly it would make sense to use administrative install instead? Possibly that would also make almost all the rest of the steps unnecessary? msiexec -a

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Win releases git repository

2023-03-31 Thread Xisco Fauli
Hello, On 31/3/23 12:30, Mike Kaganski wrote: Could you please describe, which tweaks were needed? In my experience, there should be nothing needed on Windows; even StarOffice 5.2 from 2000 works without problems At least for 3.x and 4.x releases I had to do the following tweaks: 1. Extract

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Win releases git repository

2023-03-31 Thread Mike Kaganski
On 31.03.2023 12:51, Xisco Fauli wrote: Recently I've been working on a script[1] that creates a bisect repository containing all the LibreOffice releases for Windows. This might help to quickly identify in which version an issue was introduced without the need to have all the bisect repositor