Re: [Protux-devel] Proposition : no more non-stable releases

[Luciano Giordana]

> No, _not_ exactly ;-)
> People should _either_ use the latest stable release _or_ cvs (it is easy
> to use, fast and well described how to use in download section) .... not
> more not less IMHO

you right, not exactly. I am proposing they use the curren CVS code in a form 
of a tarball OR in a form of
raw tree (by cvs checkcout'ing)

so here is

Normal User --> last stable release
More courageous user -> nightly cvs tarball
Insane tester -> cvs checkout



>
> > No more intermediate releases. Only cvs-tarballs  or even cvs raw tree
> > directly. But how to offer that in the website ?
>
> it is already done by savannah ....
> http://savannah.gnu.org/docs/admin.php  (look "Source CVS tarbals" section)
>
> ... but the files are very big and I haven't checked the usability.
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs.backups/
>
>
>
> greetings
> Reinhard
>
> > > Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2003 22:07 schrieb Remon Sijrier:
> > > > I'm not using intermediate releases, always work from CVS, but I
> > > > don't know about "normal" users. And it gives some indication (also
> > > > for the history, don't know if that makes sense) of the overall
> > > > progress....
> > > >
> > > > Remon
> > > >
> > > > On Wednesday 05 November 2003 19:02, Luciano Giordana wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > I would like to avoid releason a lot of intermediate releases
> > > > > before the stable ones, so I would like to knwo from you guys if it
> > > > > is possible to make a "nightly-snapshot" from cvs in the page. This
> > > > > way we could release only 0.20, 0.30, 0.40 (the public ones), and
> > > > > so on... and no more 0.21, 0.22...
> > > > >
> > > > > RFC
> > > > >
> > > > > L
> > > >
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