Re: Nightly Builds for Win32 - Stable Tree

>
> Hello everyone! Just letting you know that the last few weeks of work
> that I have done on a VM courtesy of Marc have come to a successful
> result: we now have nightly (well, noon WEDT, evening here in the USA)
> builds of the stable tree on Win32, including all plugins. The builds
> are uploaded to http://www.cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/ as soon as they
> are completed - there you can see the last time of build, as well as the
> files that completed building. A non-broken build will show up as:
> *Build Status*
>
> Mon Apr 24 05:58:52 WEDT 2006
> abiword-plugins-impexp-2.4.5.exe
> abiword-plugins-tools-2.4.5.exe
> abiword-setup-2.4.5.exe
>

This is a great contribution Ryan. Thanks very much!

Cheers

Martin

>
> or similar: the time will actually be 12:07. This was a manual run of
> the scheduled build... Any build errors will result in one of those
> files not appearing: the logs are uploaded so that the source of the
> problem can be found.
>
> Note that the builds are listed as 2.4.5 - I don't have a simple way to
> script this offhand, may be a future advancement/development. For
> diagnostic purposes. all builds from this machine will have a special
> splash screen (shown on the web site) to distinguish them from the
> official builds. They are created with slightly different (simplified)
> dependencies as compared to the official 2.4.x release builds (I will
> continue building those on my existing build environment) but otherwise
> should be roughly the same, just up to date. I hope to get a build
> environment for 2.5.x set up on the same machine: I will set it up so
> that both builds can run by copying in the appropriate build environment
> into the standard location immediately before the build. This first
> requires that I get accurate instructions created for a 2.5 windows
> build though, which will take a little longer.
>
> Until then, enjoy the bug-testing capability provided by these builds!
>
> Ryan
>
> --
> Ryan Pavlik
> AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
> www.abisource.com
>
> "Optimism is the father that leads to achievement." - Helen Keller
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 25 02:48:22 2006