> Anyhow providing a version number for building a distribution works as > follows: > > echo '1.5.3-ELL-i' | ant dist Good finding! > I’m not sure if anything breaks when catenating special strings on the back > like I just did, but I’m finding out. Shouldn't. > However some people have experienced the need for all kinds of dependencies. Would you please be more specific? I think it would be beneficial for us all. > I think we should consider including those sources to the build tree in a > proper place. This mainly caters to anybody willing to test new features as > they happen, as we should release prepackaged installers as soon as any new > features are tested and working. However as soon as we get more people join > in the development effort, we run into this again and again until the problem > is automated away. Indeed! > As a team we can build distribution packages for easy download publishing the > links on our main web site. I and Pekka can provide the Mac builds while the > others should consider for which Linuxes we should provide a prepackaged > installer. As soon as anybody can package a Windows installer, we should do > that too. Definitely! --Pekka