IcedTea6 releases

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/2/25 Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com>:
> The source snapshots are traditional and there is an expectation
> that they will continue.  I think people will have a higher expectation
> of quality from a tarball that has been lovingly assembled by a
> release engineer than a "simple" hg tag.
>
> But if you make it clear that tarballs will no longer be provided,
> and that any hg tagged "release" has had some QA attention
> (e.g. published jtreg results) I think there will be no problem.
>
> Martin
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 16:21, Joe Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com> wrote:
>
>> The current in-progress build is b16.  The b15 tag isn't present at the
>> moment, but b15 was just used to mark the transition to Mercurial without
>> any other code changes.
>>
>> If there is interest in having source snapshots in addition to the Mercurial
>> forest, we can could consider continuing to provide that in the future.
>

In either case,a tarball needs to be created for offline builds such
as those performed by the Debian/Ubuntu buildds and to provide a known
snapshot for the Gentoo ebuilds.  As Sun was already creating these,
it would be easier if they just didn't stop :)
-- 
Andrew :-)

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