Re: [Pan-devel] Re: Further info - Re: Newbie: Can't find source code for 0.14.90, can't get CVS to work

[robert mcdonald]

Charles are you out there? 

CVS has some serious improvements over the currently
released versions. I'd really like to see the beta
process begin. If you don't have the time to devote to
it, do you have any objection to a group of us from
this list getting the process under way (identifying
the critical bugs, fixing them and then releasing an
official beta)

--- Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:

> JoN posted
>
<address@hidden>,
> excerpted below,  on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:28:29
> +1100:
> 
> > Should have mentioned, I have 0.14.90 installed
> from an rpm that some
> > kind french gentleman constructed, however he
> didn't reveal where he
> > actually got the source from.
> > 
> > It works very nicely in comparison with the
> standard Fedora 0.14.2*
> > release which I had before, which kept breaking.
> > 
> > However, there are a few minor patches I'd like to
> apply and I just
> > can't find the source.
> > 
> > Can 0.14.90's source be put in the rebelbase http
> hierarchy perhaps ?
> 
> I see you got CVS to work, but to answer the
> question...
> 
> Once releases or betas are considered stable enough
> for at least beta,
> they get tarballed up and put in the sources dir on
> rebelbase.  The
> version number for CVS is then advanced, and work
> begins on the next
> version.
> 
> What you have now is a 0.14.90 /snapshot/.  It
> really should have the
> snapshot date, in the form -cvs200ymmdd, or
> something similar, appended to
> the 0.14.90, as it's certainly /not/ the official
> 0.14.90 release, since
> work is still continuing on that release at this
> point, and because having
> the snapshot date at least allows /some/ sort of
> tracking, and updating
> with new snapshots as appropriate.
> 
> Meanwhile, the CVS version will remain available
> from CVS, not as an
> official tarball, until 0.14.90 is considered by
> Charles to be "done", at
> which point it will be tarballed and made available
> in the usual sources
> dir, and work will start on 0.14.91.
> 
> -- 
> Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
> and if you use the program, he is your master." 
> Richard Stallman in
>
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
> 
> 
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