Re: [mxe-octave:dev] default-octave on hydra site

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

> From: Mike Miller 

> To: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> Cc: "octave-maintainers
> Date: 2016/7/26, Tue 02:05
> Subject: Re: [mxe-octave:dev] default-octave on hydra site
> 
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 15:55:59 +0900, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>>  If mxe-octave is configured with --enable-octave=default, mxe-octave is set 
> to build default branched source.
>>  If one did not make tar ball by oneself, the mxe-octave will download 
> default branch source from the hydra site
>> 
>>  http://hydra.nixos.org/job/gnu/octave-default/tarball/latest/download
>> 
>> 
>>  However, this tar ball has two demerits:
>> 
>>  1. It is not the latest. (Some delays always happen.)
>>  2. Contents of the file HD-ID is "unknown" and ChangeLog is empty 
> so that 
>>     one cannot know to which commit is applied to the source tree.
>> 
>>  Of course, as is written in the wiki about mxe build,
>> 
>> 
> http://wiki.octave.org/Windows_Installer#Step_2:_To_build_your_first_Octave-for_Windows_development_version:
>> 
>>  It is better to build octave on Unix family (linux etcs.) and make tar ball 
> by make dist.
>> 
>>  The tar ball using this procedure has not unknown HD-ID and not empty 
> ChangeLog.
>> 
>> 
>>  Perhaps the procedure that the mxe-octave downloads tar ball 
>>  from hydra site when octave-x.x.x+.tar.gz does not exist in the pkg 
> directory
>>  is considered to be users' convenient.
>>  However, demerit is not so small, I think.
>> 
>>  In my opinion, it is better that use of tarball from hydra site will be 
> optional.
> 
> I agree with your assessment of the problems with the source
> distribution from hydra.
> 
> I don't know if it's possible, but maybe mxe-octave could be changed to
> just report an error if the user tries to build default-octave and there
> is no tarball.
> 


Thank you for the reply.
I can add explanation to the wiki about default branch tar ball.

My English is poor so that I will report here when I will finish the modify the 
wiki.

Tatsuro