Re: ChangeLog love

2013-05-16 Thread John Ralls
On May 16, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Christian Stimming wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 16. Mai 2013, 12:53:16 schrieb John Ralls: >> On May 16, 2013, at 12:35 PM, Mike Alexander wrote: >>> --On May 16, 2013 11:42:39 AM -0700 John Ralls wrote: > These questions are not criticisms, but really intended to s

Re: ChangeLog love

2013-05-16 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Donnerstag, 16. Mai 2013, 12:53:16 schrieb John Ralls: > On May 16, 2013, at 12:35 PM, Mike Alexander wrote: > > --On May 16, 2013 11:42:39 AM -0700 John Ralls wrote: > >>> These questions are not criticisms, but really intended to stimulate > >>> us to review or current ChangeLog process. Is

Re: ChangeLog love

2013-05-16 Thread John Ralls
On May 16, 2013, at 12:35 PM, Mike Alexander wrote: > --On May 16, 2013 11:42:39 AM -0700 John Ralls wrote: > >>> These questions are not criticisms, but really intended to stimulate >>> us to review or current ChangeLog process. Is it still ok or time >>> to improve ? >> >> I'll go further:

Re: ChangeLog love

2013-05-16 Thread Mike Alexander
--On May 16, 2013 11:42:39 AM -0700 John Ralls wrote: These questions are not criticisms, but really intended to stimulate us to review or current ChangeLog process. Is it still ok or time to improve ? I'll go further: It makes far more sense for release tarballs to just have a digest of im

Re: ChangeLog love

2013-05-16 Thread John Ralls
On May 16, 2013, at 10:17 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > I'm looking into the remaining bits preventing a full git migration when 2.6 > will be released. > > One item on the list is our automatic changelog generation in the toplevel's > makefile. This > currently converts the svn log into a GNU

ChangeLog love

2013-05-16 Thread Geert Janssens
I'm looking into the remaining bits preventing a full git migration when 2.6 will be released. One item on the list is our automatic changelog generation in the toplevel's makefile. This currently converts the svn log into a GNU style ChangeLog file. It's easy to replicate something very simil

Re: Development primer?

2013-05-16 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Montag, 13. Mai 2013, 17:35:01 schrieb Allen S. Rout: > ... Now, what I'm doing is > > make > cd src/bin > ./gnucash > > ... Is there some reason I should expect this to fail? I can remove the > system gnucash, and install this in my homedir, if that'll be necessary > for development work. I

Git based tag builds (win32)

2013-05-16 Thread Geert Janssens
Just for your information, I have pushed a couple of changes to the repository that will change the tag build behaviour on our windows build server: - all (new) tags starting from 2.5.0 will from now on be built from a git repository - all (new) tags for the 2.4 series continue to be built from