From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10466 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2003 01:34:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 10449 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2003 01:34:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO garm.central.cmich.local) (141.209.15.48) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2003 01:34:12 -0000 Received: from leon.phy.cmich.edu ([141.209.165.20]) by egate1.central.cmich.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 20:34:05 -0500 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by leon.phy.cmich.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A600270012; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 20:34:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 04:54:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald To: Hans Ronne Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Release philosophy (was: Re: Miscellaneous Things) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Dec 2003 01:34:05.0287 (UTC) FILETIME=[090EEF70:01C3BB99] X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00973.txt.bz2 Hi Hans et al., On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Hans Ronne wrote: > has a good point, however, in that more snapshots/release candidates are > needed in the final phase before a release. I think Eric's Windows > Installers and rpm packages can do this job, but they could perhaps be more > frequent. I agree about the frequency. I have been waffling back and forth about whether to wait for the rest of the path-related changes, but since that might be awhile, I am hoping to release tonight or else tomorrow. Since the last release, we have at least two major improvements: your fixes of the module loading code and a new version of the pathing code (with desync fix :-). I am hoping to get Unix and Windows file naming over to the new nomenclature which we agreed upon. I have this mostly done; just need to test and to figure out how I want to handle old prefs files. Also, I guess we have a bunch of new game modules that people might want to play (thanks Lincoln and Elijah).... I probably should have released after you took care of that module loading stuff.... Wrt to RPM's: I think I am going to split xconq.spec into xconq.spec and xconq_cvs.spec (or xconq-cvs.spec, whatever the generally accepted RPM naming convention is as far as CVS snapshots are concerned; I have not researched this yet). The xconq_cvs RPM's would be versioned by date, and the release RPM's would be versioned by, __well, by version. Also, I think I am going to release just a plain tarball and/or zip file of the Xconq files minus any binaries. This may be useful to some people. Probably means that I should take a look at the 'dist' target in the top-level makefile.... So much to do, so little time, Regards, Eric