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Re: buggy gnulib snapshots
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: buggy gnulib snapshots |
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Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:25:28 +0200 |
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Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> I wonder if there is a way to better the odds of being lucky w/ gnulib.
In general, yes, you are more lucky on average with the stable releases [1]
than with snapshots.
In this particular case, no, the gnulib-20110216-stable.tar.gz release
contained the bug.
A better quality could IMO only be achieved through periodic builds on multiple
platforms. Simon collects build reports for gnulib [2], but not many machines
are participating so far.
Bruno
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Steady-Development.html
[2] http://autobuild.josefsson.org/gnulib/
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