Developers of Sympa

[Guillaume Rousse <address@concealed>]

David Verdin a écrit :
> We feel that we improved the way versions are handled. We would sure
> appreciate any input about the intended behaviour (applicable starting
> version 5.4).
I think you're mixing two issues here.

The first one is the desirability of a new release. I don't think
releasing something without human intervention is the best way to raise
product quality. A new release for every single typo correction is a bit
excessive. And concatenating svn changelog messages doesn't produce a
user-oriented summary of changes. This is rather subjective, but I think
that if no other project currently does it (excepted for nightly
development build), there must be some reason.

The second is the easyness of producing a new release. You're clearly
reinventing the wheel there. If you had a correct autotools
configuration, this would be just a matter of 'autoreconf && ./configure
&& make dist' (and even better, make 'distcheck' to automatically
conduct minimal safety check against it). Hence the point of the patches
I submitted.
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Guillaume Rousse
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