[haiku-development] Re: OptionalPackages

  • From: scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:11:11 -0700

> I don't know, if you have built them against the alpha branch. Even if you 
> did, the
> branch has not yet been prepared (like adjusting B_HAIKU_VERSION) and we 
> really should
> mark all optional packages invalid as soon as that has happened and rebuild 
> them
> bottom-up (binutils/gcc, autotools, etc.).
>
> CU, Ingo
>
> PS: You can create an OptionalPackages patch even with the files not yet 
> uploaded. Just
> copy the files to generated/download for testing. The one committing the 
> patch should
> test whether the download works, anyway.
>
>

If that's the route you want to go then we should probably kick it off
ASAP, and get the building blocks in place first before we start
rebuilding the rest of them.
-scottmc

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