Re: [ARMini-support] OT: NetSurf development builds (was Problems with NetSurf)

  • From: Andrew Pinder <Andrew.Pinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Armini support <armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:45:48 +0100

In message <3bb74e9c52.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 on 7 Jun 2012 Martin Bazley <martin.bazley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The following bytes were arranged on 7 Jun 2012 by Andrew Pinder :

>> In message <417c4a9c52.chris@xxxxxxxx>
>>  on 7 Jun 2012 Chris Hughes <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> we are on 2.9 of !NetSurf as the stable release and even higher with
>>> development builds.
>>
>> Going OT : The latest build on
>> http://www.netsurf-browser.org/downloads/riscos/testbuilds is dated 23
>> Mar, which predates v2.9.  So where are the current builds?

> There aren't any:

> http://vlists.pepperfish.net/pipermail/netsurf-users-netsurf-browser.o
> rg/2012-April/010783.html

> The current development builds are reportedly a bit too 'development'
> for general use.

Erm, that doesn't make sense.  Development builds are for people who 
are prepared to risk crashes etc, not for general use.

> While 2.9 appears to have a date in March, in reality it's built from a
> version of the source tree frozen in February (and subsequently tested
> for stability).

My mistake:  2.9 says 27 Feb.

> Therefore it predates the disabling of the autobuilder
> and all the recent changes which have apparently rendered it so
> unstable.  The latest development build is still based on a more recent
> version of the code than 2.9, although I imagine the visible changes are
> negligible.

I think I will revert to r13571 from 23 Mar.

Regards

Andrew
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