[Kde-extra-gear] Re: Hello and let's start to bugging everyone with proposals :-)

[Jeroen Wijnhout]

On Wednesday 06 October 2004 12:20, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> Jeroen Wijnhout wrote:
> > Ok, one last try: Helios is _telling_ us that at this moment getting the
> > latest release is not easy to do. You can say: oh, you just have to do
> > this or that. Sure, it is possible, not easy. You can't _just grab_ the
> > latest release, you have to find it first ;-)
>
> I'm still thinking why a packager should download the 'stable' release from

That is exactly what Helio is proposing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

> CVS, I think all we are releasing a tarball with the stable sources on our
> site, at least I'm.
>
> If you are saying that searching over many sites is difficult, but then I
> think a better way to accomplish that is to have a single page with a table
> with apps' names, latest stable release number, latest development release
> number and links to the download (possibly direct, or sf.net download page
> for project which uses sf.net for project webpage/release system).
>
> Also I think that the releases, at least as far as I can see with the
> cvsExtract.sh script (which I actually used only one time for now ;) ),
> contains also the language data, single admin directories and a 'personal'
> configure.

Sure, so the packagers should use cvsExtract. The problem is the branch name, 
just a simple piece of text that is hard to find, that's all. Nothing more, 
I'm getting desparate :-(

best,
Jeroen
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