Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Please Compile the ethereal onceonwindowbefore every release

["Andrew Feren" <aferen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Naveen Kumar Kaushik" <naveenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Guy Harris"
<guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Please Compile the ethereal onceonwindowbefore
every release


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> Suggestion:
> Please keep track of when Gerald posts his next mail to the developer list
> stating that "in x days there might be a new release"
> then do a cvs checkout of ethereal and compile and test.
> Then every day until the new release is out, just do a cvs update and test
> that compiling ethereal works.
> If you find that there are problems compiling ethereal just a day before
> Gerald said he was gonna do a cvs checkout and release that as x.y.z
> then you just have to mail the developer list saying : "Hey guys, can you
> hold off the release a day or so until I have fixed the problem with
> compiling ethereal on platform W"

IMO, this seems unecessarily complicated and time consuming.  I'd rather
have the release fail and apply a patch than do this dance.