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Re: GNU Classpath 0.08 released
From: |
C. Brian Jones |
Subject: |
Re: GNU Classpath 0.08 released |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Mar 2004 15:05:57 -0500 |
On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 13:28, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi, Etienne,
>
> On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 18:08, Etienne Gagnon wrote:
> > While importing Classpath into sablevm-classpath, using the
> > "classpath-0_08-release" tag, I notice that you are resuscitating
> > some files such as ./configure.in. Why isn't this file left
> > into the Attic? Maybe it's just a tagging mistake.
> >
> > A good test, for a tag, is to do:
> > cvs export -r tagname -d test classpath
> > then compare:
> > diff -r classpath test | sort | less
> >
> > So, maybe a thing to fix in 0.09? ;-) [It's considered bad
> > practice (and it is painful in CVS) to change an existing tag.
> > So, I recommend not changing the release-0_08-release tag.]
>
> Drat. Sorry about that. Yes, I made a mistake while tagging. I had
> tested everything, up to and including a complete make distcheck and a
> mauve and vte test run on another clean machine, but then went back to
> my development machine for the final cvs tag. And of course did it in
> the wrong working directory... I had hoped that I had done the
> re-tagging correctly, but forgot about the old files. I should have send
> a warning to the list.
>
> Thanks for the list of files erroneously tagged.
> I looked at the cvs documentation and it seems that you can remove tags
> from Attic files using rtag -a but I am a bit afraid that might mess up
> the tagging even more. I promise to do better for 0.09. For now please
> check a cvs checkout against the official classpath-0.08.tar.gz file.
> Or does someone know the magic command to make it all right in the
> repository?
>
> Thanks,
I would probably go ahead with the rtag -a. I think just make sure in
the future to use rtag to avoid tagging local working directory files.
Brian
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