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

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> To: Mike Miller 
> Cc: "octave-maintainers
> Date: 2016/7/26, Tue 09:40
> Subject: Re: [mxe-octave:dev] default-octave on hydra site
> 
>>  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


http://wiki.octave.org/Windows_Installer#Step_2:_To_build_your_first_Octave-for_Windows_development_version:

I have add caution fo the above for hydra archives. 
Please correct it.

Tatsuro