Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Subversion Repository Layout, or, How to Confuse People
Sorry for the top post (Outlook).
I would argue that it ain't released until it is "released". One could
further argue that the official release should be built from the
location, but I know there are issues related to that.
As for using SVN in this case, it is part of our automated build
process. I can manually trigger a build of Wireshark on all our
supported platforms, independent of whether the release is official or
not (by specifying a URL and revision). True, I do not get the benefit
of compression. However, our build system handles Subversion
repositories nicely, and I (typically) only need to do the
download/build when a new release is made.
My only problem is easily determining what to point our system at (URL,
revision).
Thanks for clarification on releases. I was confused because of the jump
between 1.0.8 and 1.2.0, with a (yet unreleased) 1.1.x.
-Bryant
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Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 9:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Subversion Repository Layout, or, How to
Confuse People
Bryant Eastham wrote:
> All-
>
> This is going to sound more harsh than I mean it to. I appreciate that
> people have differing opinions on this subject.
>
> To the core developers: please use Subversion in a more standard way.
>
> Yes, Subversion can be used in many different ways. However, just
> because it can doesn't mean that it should, and to those of us who try
> to use your repository (at least from my point of view) what you have
> done is extremely confusing.
>
> Let me just walk you through my experience today. Wireshark 1.2.0 is
now
> released, and I must build my plugins based on it for internal
> distribution. To do this I need to download the source code
> corresponding to the build, both Windows and Linux. I need to
determine
> what to check out.
I think Gerald generally creates the /releases stuff a few days after
the release. That may be more delayed than usual because of Sharkfest.
But one fundamental question I have is: why use SVN to get the source of
an official release in the first place? I do that for latest-SVN builds
(when things are constantly changing) but for the official releases I
grab the tarball. It downloads faster (bzip2 :-)) and if I think I
messed something up I just "rm -rf" and untar it again.
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