> From: sussman@collab.net [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
> Sent: 22 July 2002 00:09
> Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 07:01, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> >
> > > So maybe this means we should post tarballs more often than every 3-6
> > > weeks. If we *did* set up a system that posted a tarball every single
> > > night, then we wouldn't need to scream at people to bootstrap to HEAD
> > > anymore.
> >
> > Right, that would help a lot.
> >
> > An additional plus would be if you could unpack the sources and is
> > necessary/wanted update from the repository. This way you could get
> > somebody to try out patches you just checked in.
>
> Sure... it sounds like you'd want the "nightly tarballs" to be live
> working copies. But even so, how could the working copies update
> themselves completely? Most people have cvs installed, so the apr,
> apr-util and neon trees could be updated -- but not the main svn tree
> itself, unless you have an svn binary lying around already. It
> becomes a chicken-and-egg problem. :-)
How about adding a new target: make bootstrap.
Sander
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Received on Sun Jul 21 23:43:42 2002