From 4d057dab603f42ec40b911dbee6792dcf107bd14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:19:23 -0500 Subject: Converted libbe.storage.vcs.base to new Storage format. --- .../ffbf5ac9-e2f5-47ab-9c3c-33989c81ad42/body | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++ .../ffbf5ac9-e2f5-47ab-9c3c-33989c81ad42/values | 14 +++++++ 2 files changed, 58 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/ffbf5ac9-e2f5-47ab-9c3c-33989c81ad42/body create mode 100644 .be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/ffbf5ac9-e2f5-47ab-9c3c-33989c81ad42/values (limited to '.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/ffbf5ac9-e2f5-47ab-9c3c-33989c81ad42') diff --git a/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/ffbf5ac9-e2f5-47ab-9c3c-33989c81ad42/body b/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/ffbf5ac9-e2f5-47ab-9c3c-33989c81ad42/body new file mode 100644 index 0000000..30e3cbd --- /dev/null +++ b/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/ffbf5ac9-e2f5-47ab-9c3c-33989c81ad42/body @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +"W. Trevor King" writes: + +> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:36:26PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: +> > Please, no. Timestamps aren't version strings, that's conflating two +> > pieces of information with very different meanings. Correlating the +> > two is the job of a changelog. +> +> Which we don't bother keeping (also NEWS), since "bzr log" works so +> nicely. + +That's not a changelog, that's a commit log of every source-level commit +made. Far too much detail for a changelog of *user-visible* changes +associated with a release. + +> The timestamp should at least replace the patch release number, which +> you agree is-desirable-to increase motonically ;). + +I still disagree that a timestamp is the right thing to use there. If +you want a monotonically-increasing indicator of which revision we're up +to, that's immediately available with the revision number from VCS on +the main branch. That also has the advantage of producing consecutive +numbers for each revision, by definition. + +> One problem is that we don't actually have "releases". People just +> clone a branch, install, and go. + +I agree that's a problem. I think the solution is to start making +releases, with specific version strings, as source tarballs. + +James Rowe writes: + +> Isn't there a bzr web interface that at least supports creating +> tarballs/zips? + +Even better: ‘bzr export /tmp/foo.tar.gz’ will create a source tarball +of all the files in the branch's VCS inventory. All we need to do is +start the practice of tagging a release in the VCS, and export the +tarball at that time. + +-- + \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “Well, I think | + `\ so (hiccup), but Kevin Costner with an English accent?” —_Pinky | +_o__) and The Brain_ | +Ben Finney diff --git a/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/ffbf5ac9-e2f5-47ab-9c3c-33989c81ad42/values b/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/ffbf5ac9-e2f5-47ab-9c3c-33989c81ad42/values new file mode 100644 index 0000000..56bef0b --- /dev/null +++ b/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/ffbf5ac9-e2f5-47ab-9c3c-33989c81ad42/values @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Alt-id: <87k52bjoxe.fsf_-_@benfinney.id.au> + + +Author: Ben Finney + + +Content-type: text/plain + + +Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:54:05 +1000 + + +In-reply-to: cdf15bdd-d3fe-4251-9d0b-f1b687e9a26c + -- cgit