Tagging the 2.4.10 release

[John Ralls]

On Feb 5, 2012, at 6:24 AM, Christian Stimming wrote:

> Am Sonntag, 5. Februar 2012, 10:13:33 schrieb Christian Stimming:
>>> Gtk_-2.24.9 just got released last week. I'll blind-change defaults.sh
>>> to
>>> use it in a few minutes and we can cross our fingers. If the nightly
>>> builds, Geert can try it tomorrow and barring any issues it can go in
>>> the
>>> release on Monday.
>> 
>> I just triggered a build manually. If it works, is it possible to have a
>> 2.4.10 release ready by Monday morning? Given sourceforge's decision to let
>> gnucash appear as "weekly featured project", I'm wondering whether we better
>> have the version with less Windows bugs available as the main download
>> version...
> 
> Unfortunatly, there isn't a windows binary for gtk-2.24.9 (yet):
> 
> ############################################################
> ###  Gnome platform
> ############################################################
> (...)
> Extracting glib_2.28.1-1_win32.zip ... done
> Extracting glib-dev_2.28.1-1_win32.zip ... done
> Extracting gnome-vfs_2.24.1-1_win32.zip ... done
> Extracting gnome-vfs-dev_2.24.1-1_win32.zip ... done
> --05:46:32--  
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.24/gtk+_2.24.9-1_win32.zip
>           => `c:/soft-2.4/tmp/gtk+_2.24.9-1_win32.zip'
> Resolving ftp.gnome.org... 130.239.18.138, 130.239.18.163
> Connecting to ftp.gnome.org[130.239.18.138]:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 05:46:33 ERROR 404: Not Found.
> 
> 
> Hm. Due to the sourceforge promotion next week I'd say we better tag and 
> release the 2.4.10 version with what we currently have. Any objections?
Drat.

I see you already reverted it back. Can you do the make distcheck and upload the tarballs while I'm travelling? Then I can start the Mac builds and prepare the news release when I get home this afternoon, and we'll be ready as soon as the Windows build finishes tomorrow morning.

Regards,
John Ralls