Barry> True, but it's just more moving parts to break, especially when I
Barry> don't really feel a u/i buys you much[*].
Barry> [*] Skip knows me as a diehard XEmacser so that statement can
Barry> pretty much define my standard answer to all such questions. :)
So if we put toget
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On Mar 1, 2008, at 10:29 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> The fact that Barry found Anthony's process unusable is IMO not a
> reflection on either Barry or Anthony's code. Release processes seem
> to be highly personal, even within the same project.
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On Mar 1, 2008, at 7:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>Barry> The dependency on gtk is unnecessary and means it can
> effectively
>Barry> only be run on Linux. Specifically it means I can't do
> releases
>Barry> on OS X. I don't see
Christian Heimes writes:
> It may sound like a dumb question by why do we need a release tool
> at all? I was involved in the release process of 3.0a2. Almost
> every step of the build process required human interaction.
Interaction, yes, but often it can be reduced to "Abort, retry, fail?"
Barry> The dependency on gtk is unnecessary and means it can effectively
Barry> only be run on Linux. Specifically it means I can't do releases
Barry> on OS X. I don't see much benefit in having a gui tool for doing
Barry> releases.
Gtk and Glade are available through MacPorts,
> It may sound like a dumb question by why do we need a release tool at
> all? I was involved in the release process of 3.0a2. Almost every step
> of the build process required human interaction. I don't want to
> diminish the effort that was put into welease though. But maybe (!) the
> same time
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> I guess every release manager is free to come up with his own set of
> tools, but I feel you've given up too quickly (or started too late -
> perhaps a test release run a few days before the release would have
> helped).
>
> In any case, I'm willing to help with welease, b
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On Mar 1, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> With apologies to Anthony, welease is crack. I made pretty good
>> progress once I ditched it and starting doing things manually.
>> Between now and the next alpha I intend to work on a com
> With apologies to Anthony, welease is crack. I made pretty good
> progress once I ditched it and starting doing things manually.
> Between now and the next alpha I intend to work on a command line
> script to help with releases. If you're interested in helping, let me
> know.
I guess
