It's funny you should mention that, Cees.  I just spent a considerable part
of the weekend coming up to speed on things like tags.

How would you find the "TESTED" string in cvs tags?  Using 'cvs history -T',
by chance?  We are considering these exact issues at this time, for
releasing to the squeak SF site.

cheers,
Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cg at home.cdegroot.com [mailto:cg at home.cdegroot.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 4:24 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [VM][UNIX] SHA uploaded to SourceForge
> 
> 
> Martin McClure <martin at hand2mouse.com> said:
> >I'm not sure I see where the advantage of a weekly snapshot 
> would be. 
> >If I need the version from a particular date, I just ask CVS for the 
> >version as of that date.
> >
> Well, CVS comes bundled with my OS but it seems there are 
> still savages out
> there that need to download and install it for their 
> hopelessly inferior
> systems ;-}.
> 
> Plus, if the checkers-in would agree that they'd tag a 
> release with "TESTED"
> when they'd at least built the VM and ran some basic 
> (predefined?) test set,
> my cron job could fetch that version and put it up for download as
> "latest-tested.tar.gz" without having to start long 
> explanations about CVS
> tags.
> 
> Anyway, it was just an offer, so everyone is free to refuse :-)
> 
> (Plus, I like tim's notion that you could do all this from 
> within Squeak with
> the sockets-based CVS client much better than any fiddling 
> with tarballs...)
> 
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