Re: [RFC] removing HEAD label

On 06/26/2010 02:03 PM, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> sön 2010-06-27 klockan 02:42 +1200 skrev Amos Jeffries:
>
>>> Nah, more on that later. I still have hope on getting the work flow I
>>> desire wrt trunk. Current have some rather stupid limitations.
>
>> Okay. Can we start discussion on that now. So that it gets cleared up
>> before 3.2.0.1 starts packaging?
>
> It's unrelated to Squid packaging. It's a project management thing.
>
>> mksnapshot.sh to get it working again will needed a special case of
>> $VERSION created to alter the output tarballs from *-3.HEAD-* to *-HEAD-*
>
> Ok. The outputs SHOULD be squid-3.HEAD-XXXXXXX.tar.* not
> Squid-HEAD-XXXXXXXX.tar.*. All traces of Squid-HEAD-* should go away.
>
> HEAD alone is an old relic which should have been killed the day we
> started Squid-3.
>
> I am not aware of the scripts being dependent on HEAD without version,
> but if they are then that should be fixed. The only I remember of my
> head is that it also installs web links without version for legacy
> reasons, not that it actively looks for something without version.

I do not have any strong opinions or preferences but packaging trunk
code using some numbered version is a little confusing, IMO, especially
when you need to work with something that was packaged a while ago: "Was
that snapshot produced from trunk code or branched code?"

I would probably use revision numbers for packaging trunk code (with or
without the date), but there may be plenty of reasons not to do that.

Alex.
Received on Sat Jun 26 2010 - 20:17:14 MDT