Daily builds?

[mmdats]

I haven't been able to download the daily builds for the h100 - can someone explain whats up?  And where is my 20 bit recording?

[Llorean]

Actually, the H100 builds seem to be there, it's the H120/140 ones that are missing.

Regardless, the build system is undergoing changes. They'll be back eventually.

[mikeage]

Is it possible to at least make sure to release daily sources?

I'd rather not compile from CVS, as the daily build gives a nice baseline (plus, I can easily compare with a prebuilt binary).

Thanks

[Llorean]

What sort of baseline are you talking about?

Using SVN (the main cause of the daily build problem is the somewhat unreliable daily build server for the moment, but also the move from CVS->SVN) allows you to not have to re-apply your patches every single time.

Is there something the daily tarball offers you? I mean, you can still download the source from a specific time/revision using SVN, and that's all the tarball was, was that rolled up.

[mikeage]

Is there something the daily tarball offers you? I mean, you can still download the source from a specific time/revision using SVN, and that's all the tarball was, was that rolled up.

It offers two things
1. The source code with an EXACT copy, pre-compiled
2. GPL compliance (I don't know if having the code at some revision in SVN is considered releasing the source for a given binary)

[bluebrother]

1. you can do this yourself. No problem, just check out svn on a given time and compile it.

2. You need to distribute the sources on demand only. So to comply to the GPL it isn't necessary to have the sources available for download somewhere, in fact, one could even ask for a small fee (for CDs / shipping) if shipping the sources on demand. Having a public available repository is even better than releasing tarballs as you can see every change in detail. The GPL doesn't tell in which way to distribute the code, so a repository is completely valid. While having regular tarballs has become quite common in the open source world it isn't required by the GPL in any way.

[Llorean]

It is though required that he has his own copy of all the sources necessary to build the binary he's distributing. But he can achieve that simply by making a tarball of the revision he's just downloaded immediately after compiling the build, and keep that around somewhere.

[Bagder]

Actually, the H100 builds seem to be there, it's the H120/140 ones that are missing.

It seems to be there now, could it be that it was just a bit slow to appear?

[Llorean]

Could very well be, aye.