Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> writes:
> On zaterdag 19 maart 2011, Stephen Brown wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> Under Mictosoft Vista, does install.sh build the stable version of GNUCash
>> or the developement version.
>> Stephen Grant Brown.
>>
> Which version will be built depends on which branch you have the install
> script checkout from subversion.
>
> By default it checks out the 'trunk' branch, which is in principle the
> development branch, so the development version.
>
> If you wish to build the stable version, you should in principle configure
> the
> scripts (via a custom.sh script) to checkout the stable branch instead.
>
> I wrote "in principle" twice, because in the time period shortly after a new
> major release (like 2.4.0 a couple of months back), the development branch is
> exclusively used to fix bugs in the new release and is there no separate
> branch for the stable release just yet.
>
> So at this moment, if you build from trunk, you will get both the stable
> version and the development version, as they are the same thing.
>
> There was talk of creating a 2.4 branch a few days ago, but so far that
> hasn't
> happened yet. Once a 2.4 branch is created, all stable development (meaning
> bugfixes) continues on that branch, while trunk will be open for unstable
> development (new features, big changes,...). At that point you will have to
> modify your custom.sh to choose between the stable or unstable version to
> build.
Note that once the 2.4 branch is created it will still take a little
effort to make sure the build scripts build from the correct branch. I
do not believe those changes have been made, yet, to the (now created)
2.4 branch.
> Geert
-derek
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