Re: Checkout the sources for the release branch

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Ralf Angeli <angeli@caeruleus.net> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2007-05-24) writes:
>
>> Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>>>> Perhaps could you also upload from the pretest tarball now?
>>>
>>> I think we have enough people pretesting on Windows now without needing
>>> to supply pretest binaries.
>>
>> Supplying pretest binaries would offer some reassurance that the
>> process of building the binaries will not introduce problems that may
>> not be apparent on other systems building those by themselves.
>
> The binaries at <URL:ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/> are built from
> pretest tar balls.  The only difference is the addition of AUCTeX which
> can be mostly disabled by starting with -no-site-file.

It does not really address my point: I agree with Jason that we
probably have enough people pretesting Windows binaries _built_
_elsewhere_.

The idea was to have people testing Windows binaries built by the same
process and on the same computer that will get used for the final
release.  It would be embarrassing, for example, if we figured out
after the final release of the binaries that _this_ machine had no or
insecure image libraries.

Using the same process _including_ the same machine and installation
for pretest and release makes sure that such things have a chance to
become apparent during the pretest.

-- 
David Kastrup