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diff --git a/.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/0c40c13a-3515-4b45-a8c3-142cceab9254/body b/.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/0c40c13a-3515-4b45-a8c3-142cceab9254/body new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa9e963 --- /dev/null +++ b/.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/0c40c13a-3515-4b45-a8c3-142cceab9254/body @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +* W. Trevor King (wking@drexel.edu) wrote: +> One problem is that we don't actually have "releases". People just +> clone a branch, install, and go. + + This is actually the main reason I've manually mirrored the tree in +the past, so that users of our projects can get BE. If tarballs were +available I probably wouldn't even bother, but bzr really isn't a nice +dependency for just submitting/commenting on bugs. + + Isn't there a bzr web interface that at least supports creating +tarballs/zips? It is pretty standard functionality for most other VCS' +web interfaces so I'm guessing there must be, but loggerhead seems not +to support it. + + If it is a case of not having the hardware to host a more featureful +web UI I may be able to offer some assistance. + +> If you're worried about stability, just clone from a more stable branch +> (i.e., Chris' trunk). I think > this is good for distributed development, +> but maybe makes it hard to package into a conventional release-based system. +> With the bzr patch number in setup.py as the patch release number, I would be +> releasing my 0.1.363 while Chris releases his 0.1.314, even though they're at +> about the same point. I would rather be releasing my +> 0.1.20090714121347 +> while Chris releases his +> 0.1.20090713154540 +> Since then the similarity is clearer. + + Both approaches seem pretty odd to me, as a user you would have no +idea if 0.1.200910302359 has the fixes you required in a release you +were using that was numbered 0.1.200907141554. Surely you'd at least be +{pre,suf}fixing a branch name to the version. + +Thanks, + +James diff --git a/.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/0c40c13a-3515-4b45-a8c3-142cceab9254/values b/.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/0c40c13a-3515-4b45-a8c3-142cceab9254/values new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e7077e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/0c40c13a-3515-4b45-a8c3-142cceab9254/values @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Alt-id: <20090714142942.GA5717@ukfsn.org> + + +Author: James Rowe <jnrowe@gmail.com> + + +Content-type: text/plain + + +Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:29:42 +0100 + + +In-reply-to: ea01c122-e629-4d5c-afa7-b180f4a8748b + |