Re: [AD] 4.9 misc breakages..

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2009-01-08, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The reason I've been going through the misc scripts is I'm trying to get my 
> auto svn dist build archive going again. I thought I'd stick with what I had 
> before, but it turns out I lost my last script, so all I have now is a version 
> from ages ago that only covers 4.3, so its kindof useless.
> 
> So instead of hacking it, and messing with the existing scripts in misc, I've 
> written a new one that builds the zip, 7z, tgz, and tbz2 archives given the 
> executables are available.
> 
> one slight niggle, is if you want to create archives without the svn revision 
> in the name, you need to export a copy of the tag/branch/revision you want to 
> build the archives for, and use: build-dist.pl --local=directory
> 
> The --branch and --tag args both assume they aren't building for a real 
> release. just snapshots. thus the included revision number.
> 
> Tell me what you think, if it works, and if its wanted in /misc or not.

I think you're better off in the long term by wrapping the existing
scripts.  We'll be needing to make changes to the process now and then.
If we keep both scripts you'll need to maintain the Perl script to keep
up.  And, well, I know shell but not Perl so I wouldn't want to switch
over completely to a Perl script.  But it's not just me: whoever is
making the release quite often needs to figure out what's gone wrong or
make changes to the script.

Peter