Re: [bug-mailutils] Nightly snapshot and release questions

[Kostas Zorbadelos]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:00:12AM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Kostas Zorbadelos <address@hidden> wrote:
> 

Hello Sergey

> > However I cannot build a snapshot when I
> > checkout anonymously the code from the repository 
> > (with export CVS_RSH="ssh"
> > and
> > cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/mailutils co
> > mailutils)
> 
> Could you please list the error messages you get?
>

Well, I wasn't able to get any, as there is no configure script (I
know very little about autoconf as you can see)
 
> > The link http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs.backups/mailutils.tar.gz that
> > contains snapshots is also broken.
> 
> Where did you get this link? The correct URL is
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs-backup/mailutils-sources.tar.gz.
> 

The incorrect link is at 
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/mailutils.html

> > Can I have a buildable version of
> > mailutils based on a current snapshot?
> 
> I will prepare it for you. Visit
> ftp://download.gnu.org.ua/pub/alpha/mailutils later today.
> 

Thank you. I will visit later.

> > Also, when do you think you will make a release (0.6.91) containing
> > the bugfixes?
> 
> Recently mailutils has undergone a number of major changes, which, among
> other consequences, will lead to raising its major version
> number. There will be at least three alpha releases before the stable one.
> I plan to release the nearest alpha version in two weeks.
> 

I guess you are reffering to the namespace changes...
Thanks again and I 'll be waiting for the releases to give them a
test (but I guess I can go production with a snapshot if all works
well in the tests...) 

> Regards,
> Sergey
> 

Regards,
Kostas

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