Some of us cannot use CVS due to firewalls. Tar balls are the only way to get the software.
Please make more tar balls available! Thanks, Eric Ulevik ----- Original Message ----- From: Rahul Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 11 December 1999 12:10 pm Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: regular build schedule > As a first step, I would like to make available a snapshot > of the repository as a tar ball via the Web page. This tar ball can > be created once / two or three times a day and will be replaced with > new ones the next day. Only an automated solution. > > This is not a substitute for stable version releases of sources > and binaries. > > There certainly has been requests made by people saying, they > do not want to install WinCVS, but would like to get a snapshot > of the repository. > > I have not previously done this kind of an automated setup, but > think that its should be just a matter of running a script at > specified times of the day. A 'cron' job. Will this work? > > Yes we would need to provide a hook to the HTML page displaying > links to these tarballs from the XML site. > > rahul > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > The Xerces CVS is rapidly getting out of sync with the prebuilt > > binaries. I would like to see us establish a regular schedule for > > producing pre-built build snapshots that people can use. > > > > At the very least, we need to do a 1.0.1 to fix a few bugs. > > > > I'd like to see us do a pre-built build every week or two, so > > that interested folks can get all the changes. > > > > I also think that we should have a "stable build" 1.0.x series and > > an unstable build series. > > > > What do people think? > > > > Ted >
