It would be good to offer testers and other “bleeding edge” users the latest build without requiring A) full download or B) having to do a build.
Doing a checkout and using “bzr pull” avoids multiple big downloads, but requires both tools and B). There has been talk about setting up a continuous build process, mainly for testing. But the latest build would also be great for people to download, if we can find a way (rsync?) to just get the Diff from the previous build.
It would be good to offer testers and other “bleeding edge” users the latest build without requiring A) full download or B) having to do a build.
“bleeding edge” users ?
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On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:
Doing a checkout and using “bzr pull” avoids multiple big downloads, but requires both tools and B). There has been talk about setting up a continuous build process, mainly for testing. But the latest build would also be great for people to download, if we can find a way (rsync?) to just get the Diff from the previous build.
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
It would be good to offer testers and other “bleeding edge” users the latest build without requiring A) full download or B) having to do a build.
“bleeding edge” users ?
Doing a checkout and using “bzr pull” avoids multiple big downloads, but requires both tools and B). There has been talk about setting up a continuous build process, mainly for testing. But the latest build would also be great for people to download, if we can find a way (rsync?) to just get the Diff from the previous build.
It should work with the war files… We could actually be doing an online update feature from within DHIS2 using rsync on the war file… Whenever we do a security release or a feature release, we can put the updated war onto some place and the implementation sites will only get the diff changes.
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Regards,
Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA
Director R & D, HISP India
Health Information Systems Programme
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
It would be good to offer testers and other “bleeding edge” users the latest build without requiring A) full download or B) having to do a build.
“bleeding edge” users ?
Doing a checkout and using “bzr pull” avoids multiple big downloads, but requires both tools and B). There has been talk about setting up a continuous build process, mainly for testing. But the latest build would also be great for people to download, if we can find a way (rsync?) to just get the Diff from the previous build.
It would be good to offer testers and other “bleeding edge” users the latest build without requiring A) full download or B) having to do a build.
“bleeding edge” users ?
That phrase was meant a bit toungue-in-cheek, what I mean is that we want to have stable releases, but since they have tended to be quite infrequent, many people are rather using the latest build. My concern is that it’s a waste of time for all of us to be building when that could take place on a server - and there are people who we cannot expect to build. So I think rsync agains the .war would be good, especially if followed by automatic extraction (to reduce startup time, e.g. for DHIS2-Lite.
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:
Doing a checkout and using “bzr pull” avoids multiple big downloads, but requires both tools and B). There has been talk about setting up a continuous build process, mainly for testing. But the latest build would also be great for people to download, if we can find a way (rsync?) to just get the Diff from the previous build.