Nightly builds of sourceforge (e.g. glx)
This is an idea I've been tossing about with some other developers
on irc. It would be nice to have an automated build (nightly or
otherwise) of sourceforge. My particular area of interest is glx
at:
http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/
I am told that all I need to do is get it from CVS and execute
debian/buildsnap
Still, this is a bit more painful than necessary ... if *every*
Debian user had to do this, just think of the waste of time &
effort. Why can't a debian.org box do a debian/buildsnap for
glx (and, indeed, as many other sourceforge packages as possible)
and put them up as a debian-snap (or debian-woody-snap?) distro
to add as a deb line to apt/sources.list?
Then those of us who like "bleeding edge" stuff could one-stop-shop
for binary packages of all the latest-and-greatest.
The only possible wrinkle is that on any given day a build could fail (or
build a crappy package) so being able to fall back "n" builds to the
last "known good" build if things break would be a nice frill.
Ben
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