On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 13:28 -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> >> On Oct 6, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> >>> The srcipt runs 'make dist' to create the tarball. We don't have to prompt
> >>> the user for the tar name, the version number or the section name.
> >> 
> >> Should we 'make distcheck' instead?
> > 
> > Excellent question. I have considered that. My reasons were not very
> > strong:
> > ...
> > Let's see how it goes with other. I have never tried it. I am not really
> > against it. It could be optional too.
> 
> Yeah, your reasons above are valid.  How about a --distcheck option to toggle 
> on this behavior?

Done.

> 
> 
> > 
> >> 
> >>> Interface
> >>> ---------
> >>> Usage: publish.sh [options] section[/module]...
> >>> 
> >>> Section:
> >>> app|data|doc|driver|font|lib|mesa|proto|util|xcb|
> >>> xkeyboard-config|xserver
> >> 
> >> I would prefer passing in paths to my local git checkouts over 
> >> section/module. 
> >> You should still be able to do the same -<version> foo by checking if the 
> >> argument 
> >> is a dir, if not, chop off the -* and check again.
> > 
> > Sorry I don't get it. Can you give me an example?
> 
> $ git clone ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/xedit
> $ git clone ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/lib/libX11
> 
> do some stuff in both
> 
> publish.sh libX11 xedit
> 
> or
> 
> publish.sh libX11-1.10.0 libX11-1.9.4 libX11-1.8.8 xedit
> 
> > An entry such as lib/private_libX11 will work. I just need "lib" to get
> > the section and there should be
> > either no subdir or only one subdir. I am basically following the module
> > url:
> > 
> >        git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/ ==> lib/libX11
> >        or git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/ ==> xserver
> > 
> > What would be the structure of your "local git checkouts"?
> 
> As above.  I just dump them all into one directory.  I rename font/util to 
> font-util and util/macros to util-macros to avoid confusion.  I also have 
> multiple xserver-*/ dirs at common checkouts to avoid rebuilding when going 
> between versions.
> 
> > Also keep in  mind the section[/module] is a format used by build.sh and
> > it follows the module url
> 
> You can get the module URL from git, so I don't think it's necessary to 
> mirror that layout on the FS.

Done.

> 
> >> Why are we duplicating code between release.sh and publish.sh?  
> > 
> > That is something to decide. I aimed to have publish.sh be a superset of
> > release.sh in order to have only a single release script.
> > 
> >> Can we instead have publish.sh be a smart wrapper around release.sh. 
> > 
> > I used release.sh as a functional spec and used some of the code.
> > Calling a script within a script introduces multiple points of failure
> > and a lot of additional  tests. The odds of a change done in release.sh
> > and be tested from publish.sh are next to nil.
> > Returning information, sharing variables, error checking, user messages
> > style and consistency are all more difficult.
> > With the assumption that we have a single script (need to revamp the
> > wiki), the internal implementation does not matter much, so as long as
> > it is maintainable.
> > 
> > I also copied the structure of build.sh (which early on I thought I
> > could call). The only script being called is update_moduleset.sh which
> > has already given trouble with the readlink issue (still to be solved). 
> 
> Ok, if this is the case, I'd like to see this new script replace release.sh 
> so we don't have duplicated functionality.  It seems like this should be able 
> to completely replace release.sh with some minor tweaks (like this following 
> one).

Done.

> 
> >> Alan also sent out a release.sh patch (which I reviewed and provided a 
> >> followup for) 
> >> which does some of the same "intelligent" aspects but for the current 
> >> module.
> >>  I would like to either see both of these exist together or update 
> >> publish.sh to support "."

Done. It can also be given any valid path, absolute or relative to the
script invocation directory.

> > 
> > The thought had crossed my mind, given the existing working habits. I
> > was waiting for comments on that.
> > I don't have any objection.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
> 


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