David H. Durgee wrote:
Joe updated to the 2.7 release there 10 hours ago. Given I am still not
seeing that release at http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/
but still the 2.6.1 release I am wondering if he has "jumped the gun" a
bit and this is still actually a beta or RC as opposed to a release.
I cannot tell for sure what Joe did, but SM 2.7 has been tagged in the
revision control system on Sunday already:
<http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-release/rev/12be3a2dda04>
Given that no other change has been made to the comm-release source
repository since then and SM 2.7 will be released today, it's probably
safe to say that this tag actually points to the SM 2.7 source. If Joe
used that tag to build the package(s) he provides then what he provides
*is* SM 2.7.
Basically, the release process consists of multiple steps. The above
mentioned tagging is a prerequisite before final packages can be built,
but even when all packages are available they won't trigger website
updates automatically. That's a manual process, usually prepared by me
(done yesterday) and finished by Justin (whenever he gets to it).
I am holding off installing until I know this is the actual release.
Well, it's a matter of trust. The only official SM packages are
available from seamonkey-project.org (and maybe some locale-dependent
sites like seamonkey.at for German), *when* they are available. This
will be some time today (US Eastern time). Any other packages are not
released by the SM project itself but other vendors (e.g. Linux
distributors like SuSE, or guys like Joe). Whether you trust them to
actually ship packages built from the same code base totally depends on
you. Personally I'd trust the SM project most, Linux distributors
following, and not such much anyone else. But that's up to you.
HTH
Jens
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Jens Hatlak <http://jens.hatlak.de/>
SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker <http://smtt.blogspot.com/>
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