Re: [LAU] Ardour3

On Monday 20 December 2010 21:55:20 Paul Davis wrote:
> i don't really want to argue this too much, but i do think that its
> pretty fallacious to propose that because Arch makes it relatively
> easy (like gentoo) to wrap the use of an svn repository in a
> package-related system that users of the result of this process will
> understand that there is really no difference between an explicit
> checkout of svn and management of one's repository, and the
> package-related tool version.
>
> the alpha testers for a3 to date have all been extremely clear that
> you don't bother checking it out unless you intend to (a) get on the
> commit mailing list (b) regularly svn update (possibly a few times a
> day on days when they are testing). i understand (now) that there is
> nothing about the pkgbuild system in Arch that prevents either of
> these two from still being the case. however, i don't believe that
> even a majority of people who use the method will understand the need
> for (a) and (b) or even just the general nature of what they're
> connected to.
>
> there were 16 commits to svn within the last 20 hours. some of these
> were deep changes to the way things work (though hopefully not
> resulting in any visible breakage, we don't know, which is why its not
> released yet). do you really think that arch linux users who are using
> a pkgbuild to try this out have any grasp of what is going on?
>
> maybe the answer, your answer, is "yes". i'm quite a bit more skeptical.

Should such scripts add a cron job to do the updates several times a day? Or
one that runs hourly and checks for some flag on the ardour site to know if
it needs to update automatically?

Asking from a level of ignorance here.

all the best,

drew

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Received on Tue Dec 21 16:15:04 2010