No hurry. Just something to think about before the stable release. Thanks.
On 11/9/2015 4:26 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote: > Yes, this can be done very easily. There is already binaries on > http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/ that can be downloaded as a zip or tar.gz > file. I might try to tage some with an rc2 tag to prepare everything > and every packager. I forgot to do that, but probably tomorrow. > > 2015-11-09 22:23 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]>: >> >> >> On 11/9/2015 9:13 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote: >>> 2015-11-09 14:54 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]>: >>>> On 11/8/2015 6:01 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote: >>>>> Hi Wayne >>>>> >>>>> Thank you for realasing. Although the download link is a bit strange.. >>>>> it still partly refers to rc1. >>>>> >>>>> https://launchpad.net/kicad/4.0/4.0.0-rc1/+download/kicad-4.0.0-rc2.tar.xz >>>>> >>>>> But anyway, I guess we can just say that the docs, and their >>>>> translations, and the GUI translations shall be done in two weeks if >>>>> they want to be included with the release. The same witht he libs, if >>>>> anything is is left to be done, and we can just take a snapshot of the >>>>> libs and put it on the download page. >>>> >>>> I'm wondering if we should branch the translation and doc repos. Once >>>> new features and strings are added to kicad during the next development >>>> cycle, updating the translation and doc repos will not make sense >>>> against the 4.0 stable release of kicad. Creating 4.0 branches of the >>>> doc and translation repos would allow for new translations and improved >>>> documentation for the 4.0 stable release. There would be some >>>> cross-over between the 4.0 and development repos which would be a bit >>>> more work. I'm OK with tagging the current repos as well. The downside >>>> to that is there will be no new translations or doc improvements until >>>> the next stable release. I'll leave that up to the doc and translation >>>> folks. Tagging and a snapshot archive makes sense for the lib repo. >>> >>> I think just tagging it should be sufficient to generate a release >>> tarball on github (4.0.0.0). If we need followup changes we can make a >>> leaf branch from there or later on the master branch with 4.0.0.1. I >>> don't think -n is good here, because multiple packaging systems use a >>> dash number notation to describe revisions of the packaging scripts >>> themselves. The triplet is reserved to the kicad source, so we must >>> need some other indicator for auxiliary stuff. But we really need to >>> align the version numbers across the source code, docs, translations >>> and libs. >> >> I just thought of something. We will need a way to fetch the built >> documentation for packaging on platforms that don't have the native >> tools to build the docs from source. I still have not had any success >> building the docs from source on windows. This means that if we do tag >> the doc repo rather than branch it, we will need to be able provide >> builds from the tagged version of at least the pdf files for all >> languages. I'm assuming this can be done. If not, we will have to find >> alternative. >> >>> >>>>> 2015-11-08 23:11 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]>: >>>>>> I just finished up getting all of the relevant code for RC2 uploaded to >>>>>> launchpad so let's fire up those autobuilders and get some rc2 packages >>>>>> out there for testing. I'm hoping this will be the last rc before the >>>>>> stable release. Let's keep our fingers crossed. We need start thinking >>>>>> about branching or tagging the library, documentation, and translation >>>>>> repos so that packagers can build consistent packages for their >>>>>> respective platforms. Thanks to everyone who made this possible. I'm >>>>>> going to step away from my computer for a while and enjoy the adult >>>>>> beverage of my choice. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> >>>>>> Wayne >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
