IcedTea6 releases

[Joe Darcy]

On 02/24/09 05:54 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 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 :)
>   

I think we'll keep on going then :-)

-Joe

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