Win32 packages released on sourceforge

Jakob Eriksson jakov at vmlinux.org
Mon Mar 22 10:20:03 CST 2004


Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:

>Now, when do we build? I don't think we should trigger the build based
>upon CVS commits, we need it a bit more controlled for a variety of
>reasons. Here is what I propose:
>  -- decide on a time at night when the tree is very unlikely to change
>     (say 4am). 
>  -- every day, at 4:10am we do:
>     cvs up -D YYYYMMDD0400
>     (this way we know _precicely_ what we built, and we can reporduce it)
>  -- do the build (fix WINE_BUILD), check if the winetest.exe really changed.
>  -- if it changed, edit WINE_BUILD and set it to YYYYMMDD0400.
>  -- publish the result as winetest-YYYYMMDD0400.zip via the CGI script
>  
>

Excellent!  Nitpicking, but could we publish winetest-YYYYMMDD0400.exe, 
UPX-packed? :-)
As small as zip and no unpacking needed.

>But the main point here is that we can't build based on CVS committs, we
>need a well known, controlled point where we build so that developers
>can reproduce the build and investigate problems.
>
>  
>

Agreed. Good you spent some thought on this.


regards,
Jakob



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