On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 08:44:00AM +0800, Qian Yun wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/22/22 08:18, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 07:46:03AM +0800, Qian Yun wrote:
> >>Hi Waldek,
> >>
> >>GitHub allows me to modify the release page to add new binaries.
> >>
> >>A few questions:
> >>
> >>http://fricas.sourceforge.net/doc/INSTALL-bin.txt stills mentions 1.3.7.
> >>Shall we put that file into git as well?  Some other parts need
> >>updating as well.
> >
> >I update this at each release.  Keeping it in version control is
> >almost no gain.  ATM I am waiting for all binaries, this is
> >part that changes for each release.  And of course, we need some
> >info about how to install new binaries.
> >
> >Basically I want to officially announce release once all binaries
> >and documents are in place (I do not want to change Notes-1.3.8.txt
> >after release as this may cause confusion, and Notes-1.3.8.txt
> >contains names of binaries).
> 
> I have uploaded macOS/windows binaries.  And I add a few sentences
> at the end of the release page.  Feel free to add them to
> INSTALL-bin.txt.

I have copied them to SourceForge and added them to INSTALL-bin.txt.
I have also created Notes-1.3.8.txt.  I have put main source tarball
to Github under wrong name (dot instead of dash), I will correct
to later.

> >>Now the tag name and branch name is the same.  It is a little
> >>inconvenient to checkout them.  Can you rename the branch name
> >>to something else?
> >
> >Tag is pure Github nonsense, apparently it does not allow
> >making relase without a tag.  IMO, to minimize confusion it
> >is best to keep them the same. Concerning checkout IIUC
> >canonical procedure is:
> >
> >git clone
> >git checkout
> >
> >and it seems to work fine.  What problem do you see?
> >
> 
> Tag and branch are the same name, you will get
>     warning: refname '1.3.8' is ambiguous.
> And when you do checkout, it defaults to tag instead of branch.

Well, branch and tag really point to the same sources, so is
this a problem?

-- 
                              Waldek Hebisch

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