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Re: [PATCH 1/5] Restore and fix up the rules for building and uploading snapshots


On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 03:23:35PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>On 24/04/2011 17:13, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 02:05:53PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>> Restore and fix up the rules for building and uploading snapshots
>>> removed in version 2.81 of Makefile.am
>>>
>>> 2011-03-30  Jon TURNEY  <jon.turney-GrJqePx9RPPAJUdA+FbntA@public.gmane.org>
>>>
>>> 	* Makefile.am (release, snapshot, clean-local): Restore and fix up the
>>> 	rules for building and uploading snapshots
>> 
>>See Change #2.81 (which you apparently already know about).
>
>I guess I misunderstood the check-in comment to mean "Remove these
>rules because they have been broken by other changes" rather than
>"Remove these rules because testing is unnecessary" :-)
>
>>I don't think setup.exe snapshots are very useful.  I never see much
>>indication that anyone uses them which is why I removed the code to
>>begin with.  I'd rather not raise setup.exe to the level of a "product"
>>which we have to beta test.
>
>I wrote a lengthy response here, but it's your decision, so, patch
>withdrawn.

FYI, I had a lengthy response to the tone of this message but I decided not
to send it.

I guess there's a lot of that going around.

cgf


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