[caudium-general] Re: Re: anyone using snapshots?

["H. William Welliver III" <hww3 AT riverweb.com>]

> Snapshots are the first step into testsuites and/or continuous builds.

Often (usually), the continuous build process generates snapshots. It's 
kind of all entangled. They often all happen in tandem.

> For example, i daily use and develop on a Fink packaged Caudium, and
> it's so easy to update it to current bleeding edge when a snapshot's
> available.
> Off course this could be done from a CVS repo, but that would be more
> long and complicated on my side. More, reading README.cvs, i guess it
> wouldn't be side effect free, ie some people could get different
> snapshot from the same CVS source depending on some autoconf "magic".

Well, that's always been a problem due to the vastly different versions of 
autoconf folks are using to do development.

> My last argument would be that's it's way easier for testing: snapshot
> 2008XXYY is more specific than "get a cvs/svn snapshot number 42 or from
> yesterdayy night". It's also easier to get a revision from the past.
>
> I hope i've made my point :)

Yep. I definitely see the benefits to having snapshots. I'd like to make 
sure that we very clearly identify them for download and use as such (ie, 
that the version may be something like 1.4.20080612-SNAPSHOT.

Also, some reading homework for everyone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_Integration

Bill