On 04/04/2011 18:51, Stefan Sperling wrote: > Should we start building 1.7 binaries and ask people to test them? > We might call it beta testing or even "early access builds" or somesuch. > I don't really care about the name. > > But there seems to be increased interest in 1.7 among our user base. > TortoiseSVN is already providing binaries based on trunk code and we've > already received useful feedback because of this. > > Note that this is entirely independent of creating a 1.7.x branch. > I think that should still wait until we consider trunk to be RC quality. > The overhead of using 1.7.x/STATUS is too much of a burden at this point. > > I could try to create binaries for OpenSUSE (on the opensuse buildservice) > and Ubuntu (in a ppa).
You can create binaries for a lot of different distros on OBS (openSUSE Build Service) if you're a bit careful with the spec file. It's a bit more complex if you include things that are typically quite distro-specific, e.g. init.d scripts. I have some experience with this, so might be able to help... John. -- John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot. http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake
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