Re: [AD] 4.9 misc breakages..

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On January 9, 2009, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On January 9, 2009, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > On January 9, 2009, Peter Wang wrote:
> > > On 2009-01-09, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > I should also mention, Its faster, and creates more versions of the
> > > > archives. And does them all in one step.
> > > >
> > > > It has built in documentation, and the shell scripts are just plain
> > > > evil. IF my script builds perfect release archives I wouldn't be
> > > > scared to make releases. As it is, all the many steps required right
> > > > now makes it so I won't do any releases, too many steps. If you
> > > > recall, I actually volunteered a while back to start doing some
> > > > releases.... Now you know why I haven't.
> > >
> > > For your interest, I use the following script to make 4.9 releases.
> > > Pretty much everything that can be automated, is automated, and is
> > > done by the existing scripts.
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > #!/bin/zsh
> > > # vim: ft=zsh et
> > > set -e
> > >
> > > ver=(4 9 7)
> > > dotted_ver="$ver"
> > > dotted_ver=${dotted_ver// /.}
> > >
> > > export LC_ALL=en_US
> > >
> > > rm -rf allegro
> > > svn export file://$HOME/ahack/SF_REPO_BACKUP/alleg/allegro/branches/4.9
> > > allegro ( cd allegro
> > >     ./misc/fixver.sh ${=ver} WIP
> > >     ./misc/zipup.sh allegro-$dotted_ver.zip
> > >     mv .dist/*(.) ..
> > > )
> > > rm -rf allegro
> > > unzip allegro-$dotted_ver.zip
> > > ./allegro/misc/mkunixdists.sh allegro-$dotted_ver.zip
> >
> > Yeah. I'm not a fan of shell scripts. I can't normally do all I want to
> > do with it without calling into umpteen different programs and spawning
> > subshells just to work around shells I don't use :o
> >
> > I prefer to use something that will "just work". There aren't 20
> > different perls. Theres one ;) makes it a lot easier to maintain (for
> > me).
> >
> > My script will also support both 4.3/4 and 4.9+.
>
> New version. 4.3/4.4 support :)

I've got my package archive setup again :)

http://strangesoft.net/allegro/

It'll generate a new set every day, if theres a new svn revision.

-- 
Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx