[Alexandria-list] 0.6.3 Plans

[Cathal Mc Ginley]

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:48:33 -0500
"Joseph Method" <tristil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I propose that we do a very modest 0.6.3 release based on a few small
> changes, and that we make the timing of the release dependent on
> completion of the tasks we set ourselves in this thread. Then we can
> finalize that as a doc on the wiki.

A doc already exists here:
http://wiki.alexandria-projects.org/wiki/Milestone-0-6-3

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> - The current optional dependencies should be packaged and made
> required dependencies. We could make alexandria a virtual package and
> have it possible to install an alexandria-real package without the
> dependencies.

This seems like a lot of work. Do any other mid-sized programs do this?

One thing that really does seem necessary for packaging is to make an
updated ruby-zoom deb.

We should also package ruby-revolution version 0.5-1.svn210 as earlier
versions are actually incompatible with the GPL (see bug #16355). Thanks
to the author, Tom, for adding the GPL as a license option after Mamoru
Tasaka asked.

> - If possible, we should also release RPMs.
> 

Perhaps Mamoru Tasaka, who packages Alexandria for Fedora, could help
us out here. (You can find him as mtasaka on RubyForge.) There was also
a document called "The road to Alexandria..." which describes how to
build Fedora RPMs for Alexandria 0.6.1

http://www.g-loaded.eu/2005/10/11/the-road-to-alexandria/

Following this document's description of prerequisites is how I
originally installed Alexandria under SourceMage.

> Anyway, suggest anything else that we should require for this release.
> 

   -   C.
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