muCommander ebuild

[Johann]

Hey,

we have just added a Gentoo ebuild for muCommander to our Portage Overlay (See http://www.j-schmitz.net/portage/ for details). Currently its just the bin version (v0.8.2). An user-build one (or even a "live" version directly from svn) follows asap.

bg,
Johann

[maxence]

Hey Johann,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention! This sounds great, I'm sure it will come in handy for Gentoo users.
FYI, 0.8.3 is coming along nicely and will be out within a month.

Cheers,
Maxence

[Johann]

Hi,

the muCommander ebuild now builds the jar itself instead of using the bin-version.
Only downside: Currently a jdk-1.6 is required, but this will be fixed soon.

br,
Johann

[Johann]

Hi again,

Is it possible to provide a source tarball on a regular (e.g. weekly) base? Or a SVN Tag? Or can I mirror a source tarball on my server?
Reason: I want to provide an updated ebuild of the 0.83 version including the new Excludable Mountpoint feature. The old, "main" 0.83 ebuilds uses the 0_8_3 SVN Tag, but the new ebuild would need a newer source Tarball and I don't want to use the nightly source tarball (since this one changes very often).

[Johann]

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[Johann]

Hi,

i have added an ebuild for version 0.8.6_pre20100327 (todays nightly build) to our gentoo portage overlay (http://www.j-schmitz.net/portage-overlay/). Since my ebuild in the Gentoo Bugzilla is somewhat outdated, someone should add a link to the overlay on the Package Maintainers site in the wiki, since it contains a more recent version. I will try to keep the ebuild up-to-date.

Johann

[sclebo05]

Thanks for the update! Added the URL to the wiki page. We're currently trying to decipher what packages exist, so we can focus on getting the software to users of all major distros.

Let me know of any further updates.

Josh

[maxence]

Hi Johann,
Thanks for the heads up! I noticed your previous messages weren't answered but nevertheless: we currently have nightly builds and stable releases but no such thing as weekly releases. What you could do is pull the source tarball from http://www.mucommander.com/download/nig ... src.tar.gz on a weekly basis. Note that we're trying to shorten release cycles to 2-3 months so you might want to consider sticking to stable releases.

Please let us know if there is anything else we can do to help.

Cheers,
Maxence

[Johann]

Hi,

Thanks for your replies.

we currently have nightly builds and stable releases but no such thing as weekly releases.

That is not a big problem, since i have to repack the nightly builds tarball's to fit better into the gentoo portage structure and to provide some kind of "sticky" nightlies.

Note that we're trying to shorten release cycles to 2-3 months so you might want to consider sticking to stable releases.

Sounds great! But 2-3 months is a very long time for good software! Apart from that: The nightly builds are most of the time stable enough to be used on a daily basis.

I will try to provide to kind of ebuilds: a source-ebuild for every major release (starting with 0.8.6) and the bin-version for the meantime (bleeding edge, yeah!).

Johann

[maxence]

Sounds great! But 2-3 months is a very long time for good software! :) Apart from that: The nightly builds are most of the time stable enough to be used on a daily basis.

Yeah, I wish we could release more often than that too, but it takes a bit of time to create the actual build files (most of the process is automated but not all of it) and integrate translation updates. Plus having new features rest in nightly builds for a while allows bugs to be spotted early and yields more stable releases.

I will try to provide to kind of ebuilds: a source-ebuild for every major release (starting with 0.8.6) and the bin-version for the meantime (bleeding edge, yeah!).

Awesome, thanks for your efforts!
Maxence